15 West 96th Street

Fifteen operates as a full-service condominium with a 24-hour doorman, an attended lobby, a live-in resident superintendent, and a comprehensive amenity set: a fitness center, a children's playroom, a resident lounge, private storage, a bike room, and a package room, alongside in-unit laundry and private outdoor space in every home. The amenity calibration is at the level expected of contemporary Upper West Side new development.

Because the residences are deeded condominium units, ownership carries the flexibility the form implies: no cooperative board interview, purchaser financing through the buyer's own lender, and pied-à-terre use, investment ownership, and subletting all permitted under the condominium bylaws. The building is pet-friendly. As with any new-development condominium, confirm the pet policy specifics, any transfer or working-capital contribution, the current sublet terms, and the building's financial profile against the offering plan and current house rules at offer stage.

SLCE Architects designed Fifteen as a slender limestone-clad tower — a contemporary composition that pairs a stone façade with modern detailing rather than a pure glass curtain wall. Residences begin on the sixth floor, above a non-residential base, and the building's 21 homes are configured largely as full-floor and near-full-floor residences ranging from one bedroom to five, up to a top-of-building penthouse. Interiors feature roughly 10-foot ceilings, custom kitchens, and private outdoor space with every residence — balconies and terraces that are unusually consistent across the building. The full-floor format means single-exposure-free layouts with light on multiple sides, and the scale of the larger homes is oriented squarely toward the family-buyer segment.

Fifteen sits at the top of the Upper West Side, one block from Central Park's northwest corner and steps from the B and C trains at 96th Street and Central Park West. The location blends immediate park access with the everyday texture of the neighborhood — Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue retail, schools, and the broad residential fabric of the Upper West Side. The building fronts 96th Street at the northern edge of the neighborhood, just outside the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District boundary, which allowed the tower to be built as-of-right without Landmarks review.

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $2,340/sf (recorded) across 4 sales. Median listing discount 3.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01832-7503). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

Buying here is a condominium path: your own financing, no substantive board approval, and full use flexibility under the bylaws. The reasons to buy are concrete — brand-new construction one block from Central Park, large full-floor layouts, private outdoor space with every home, and a full-service amenity and staffing package, all in a neighborhood where new ownership inventory is rare. Because the building is new and small, review the offering plan carefully, confirm the sponsor's remaining inventory and any incentives, and underwrite the specific residence — floor, exposure, and outdoor space drive value here.

The story is new-development quality at the park-adjacent northern edge of the Upper West Side — a differentiated position against the neighborhood's pre-war co-op stock. Pricing should be apartment-specific: full-floor residences underwrite very differently by floor and exposure, and the presence and scale of private outdoor space is a real value lever. Positioning should lead with the building's newness, its Central Park proximity, the full-service amenity and staffing package, and the condominium flexibility that distinguishes it from the surrounding cooperative inventory.

If you're considering 15 West 96th Street, also look at these Upper West Side boutique buildings:

• 12 West 96th Street — same block, directly comparable northern-UWS ownership profile
• 7 West 96th Street — adjacent park-block building serving an overlapping buyer pool
• 41 West 96th Street — nearby West 96th Street building, comparable neighborhood context
• 50 West 96th Street — cross-block comparable at the top of the Upper West Side
• 275 West 96th Street — larger West 96th Street building for scale contrast
• 311 West 97th Street — nearby northern-UWS building serving similar buyers