Status Complete Current tenants 202 units Completed 2008 Floors 35 Architect Robert A. M. Stern | Architectural style Post-Modern Construction started 2005 Height 168 m Phone +1 212-489-1500 | |
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15 Central Park West is a condominium building located at the corner of West 61st Street and Central Park West in New York City. Construction started in 2005 and was completed in 2008, costing a total of $950 million (equivalent to $1.10 billion in 2015). The building was designed in a New Classical style by Robert A. M. Stern.
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Author michael gross takes us inside the limestone walls of 15 central park west
Development
The building was constructed by developers Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf of Zeckendorf Development, grandsons of real estate developer William Zeckendorf, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Eyal Ofer's Global Holdings Inc. Ofer also owns the Altria Building, 18 Gramercy Park, and a new luxury residential tower at 50 United Nations Plaza, which was completed in 2014. 15 Central Park West is considered by some to be one of New York's most prestigious residential addresses. The location, described as "the most expensive site in Manhattan," (worth $401 million in 2004) comprises an entire, albeit small, city block on Central Park West, formerly occupied by the somewhat dilapidated Mayflower Hotel (a 1926 Neo-Renaissance building designed by the architect Emery Roth) and a vacant lot.
Architecture
As per Robert A. M. Stern's designs, 15 CPW is divided into two sections, a 19-story tower on Central Park West known as "the house" and a 35-story tower on Broadway, joined by a glass-enclosed lobby. It includes such amenities as a private driveway to screen residents from paparazzi, a cinema with 20 seats and 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) fitness center which has a 75-foot (22.86 m) swimming pool.
The New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that 15 CPW was designed to "echo" Central Park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings. He described the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues." He compared 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920s, 778 Park Avenue, 834 Fifth Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue. 15 Central Park West's limestone facade uses material from "the same quarry that was a source for the Empire State Building". The floor plan was designed so that almost all rooms have an open view and layouts that borrow heavily from the styles commonly found in the 1920s.
Notable residents
Noted residents include or have included Robert De Niro, Sting, Norman Lear, Denzel Washington, Bob Costas, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev and his daughter Ekaterina Rybolovleva, former Citigroup executive Sandy Weill, businessman Min Kao, NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez.