Cooperative with condominium-style rules · 1927
112 Central Park South
112 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019
Buildings·Cooperative with condominium-style rules

112 Central Park South

112 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019

At a glance
Year built
1927
Type
Cooperative with condominium-style rules

112 Central Park South is a discreet, park-front address with an unusually rich pedigree. The building rose in 1927 as a luxury residential hotel, designed by Rosario Candela — the architect most associated with New York's grandest pre-war apartment houses — together with James E. Carpenter. For most of its first eighty years it operated as a hotel, including stints as a Ritz-Carlton and later an InterContinental, before being converted to residences in the mid-2000s.

That conversion, overseen by Costas Kondylis, reimagined the building as a small, private residential address and added a tier of rooftop penthouses. The result is a cond-op — a cooperative that operates with condominium-style rules — combining the prestige of a Candela building and a direct Central Park South location with a transactional flexibility closer to a condominium than to the avenue's traditional co-ops.

For buyers, the case is specific: a boutique, white-glove building looking straight onto Central Park, with the architectural lineage of one of the city's great pre-war architects and rules that are friendlier to financing and ownership flexibility than the typical Central Park South co-op.

Building operations

112 Central Park South runs as a full-service, white-glove building — an attended lobby with doorman and concierge, and the discreet service a boutique park-front address implies. The building's small size and hotel heritage lend it a private, hospitality-grade character.

Its cond-op structure is the operational headline. As a cooperative with condominium-style rules, the building generally allows the financing latitude and ownership flexibility — pied-à-terre use, purchases through trusts and entities, and more permissive subletting — that distinguish it from the traditional co-ops elsewhere on the avenue, while retaining a board. That structure is a meaningful part of the building's appeal to buyers who want a park-front pre-war home without a conventional co-op's most restrictive rules.

Local Law 97

Carbon-penalty exposure
🟡
Moderate — manageable today, 2030 cliff likely
2024–2029 annual penalty
$0 (under cap)
2030–2034 annual penalty
$45,975/yr
Per unit / month range
$0 – $61
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Facade safety — Local Law 11

Local Law 11 / FISP · last inspection 2020–25
Safe
What this means for you

The facade passed its last inspection with no required repairs — nothing to budget for here, and no facade assessment on the horizon for roughly five years.

Inspection history
2005–10
SWARMP
2010–15
Safe
2015–20
SWARMP
2020–25
Safe
2025–30
Due
Next report due
by Feb 2029
On record
$3,000 in filing penalties
The three grades, in buyer terms
SafeGood for ~5 years — no facade assessment on the horizon.
SWARMPSafe now, repairs due on a deadline — budget for the work or a possible assessment.
UnsafeActive hazard: sidewalk shed and repairs now. Expect disruption and an assessment.

QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.

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Recent sales

As a boutique building of 63 residences, 112 Central Park South sees light, episodic turnover — a small number of resales in a typical year. Pricing sits firmly in the Central Park South luxury tier, with strong premiums for direct park-facing homes, high floors, and the rooftop penthouses; interior and lower units trade at a discount to the park lines. The building's auto-updating sales record reflects recorded transfers as they close. Given how rarely the best park-facing homes come to market, a tailored comparable analysis is the right tool for valuing a specific residence.

What to know if you’re buying

The park is the asset and the price driver. Direct Central Park frontage is the scarcest thing on the block and cannot be added later, which makes the north-facing and high-floor homes the building's most defensible holdings. Verify the exact exposure and sightline for any unit — on Central Park South a few floors materially changes the outlook.

The cond-op structure is a genuine differentiator. The financing and ownership flexibility it allows set this building apart from the avenue's traditional co-ops, while still providing a board's oversight. Understand the specific rules — financing, subletting, pied-à-terre, and entity purchases — as they apply to your intended use; we walk buyers through them.

This is a boutique, full-service building, so carrying costs spread across a small owner base. Review the financials and reserves, and weigh the service level and park location against the monthly cost. We help buyers benchmark the price against the Central Park South and Billionaires' Row trophy market.

What to know if you’re selling

Lead with three things: the park, the Candela pedigree, and the cond-op flexibility. A direct Central Park South frontage in a 1927 Candela building that also offers condo-style rules is a rare combination — position the home on all three, not just the view.

Benchmark to the Central Park South and Billionaires' Row luxury tier, and emphasize the structural flexibility to buyers who would otherwise face a restrictive co-op board nearby. Closing runs through the building's cond-op process, which is typically more straightforward than a traditional co-op admission — itself a selling point to the flexibility-minded buyer this building attracts.

Park-facing and penthouse homes sell on the outlook and the address; interior homes sell on the building, the service, and value relative to the park lines. Position each home on its strongest specific attribute.

Comparable buildings

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The Roebling Team at 112 Central Park South

The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Central Park South, Billionaires' Row, and Manhattan's park-front trophy market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating a Candela building with cond-op flexibility deserve building-specific intelligence — which exposures hold value, how the ownership structure changes the transaction, and where the pricing sits against the surrounding park-front stock.

If you're considering a purchase or sale at 112 Central Park South, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.

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Corey Cohen, Principal · The Roebling Team at Compass
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