- Year built
- 1913
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 26
- Floors
- 14
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 4BR+ median
- $9.3M
- Recent range
- $4.9M – $9.3M
- Avg vs. ask
- -7.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 24
271 Central Park West is one of Schwartz & Gross's two earliest Central Park West commissions — the other being the Brentmore at 88 CPW — and it predates the firm's prolific 1920s output by more than a decade. Completed in 1913, it belongs to the small cohort of prewar Central Park West houses built before the avenue's Art Deco era, and it has held its original full-floor character ever since.
The building's defining trait is scale and rarity of turnover: just twenty-six apartments across fourteen stories, two to a floor, in a corner position that gives the east line direct Central Park frontage. Apartments seldom come to market, and when they do they range from grand prewar full-floors to the building's trophy duplexes — the 3/4E duplex has twice traded above $16.9 million.
Architecture and unit composition
Schwartz & Gross were among the most prolific apartment-house architects of early-twentieth-century Manhattan. At 271 CPW they worked in a Neo-Renaissance vocabulary with French Second Empire elements — a brick facade with faux balconies and a stone frieze of garlands and shields that lends the building a strong horizontal emphasis, distinct from the verticality of the Deco towers that would later rise up and down the avenue.
Developer Samuel A. Herzog assembled the lots in August 1912 and completed the building by September 1913. It leased quickly — roughly 60 percent rented by the middle of 1913 and fully leased by the time it opened — at yearly rents of $2,400 to $2,900. The original plan placed two apartments on each floor: the east apartments, facing Central Park, of nine rooms; the west apartments of eight, each with a library, separate dining and living rooms, a wood-burning fireplace, and dedicated staff rooms. The building converted from rental to cooperative ownership in the 1970s and runs today as a full-service house.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 2025 | GRN | 2 BR | $1,250,000 | -3.5% |
| Jul 16, 2025 | 2W | 4 BR | $4,900,000 | -6.7% |
| Mar 17, 2023 | 9E | 5 BR | $9,300,000 | -2.1% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 4W | 4 BR | $4,680,000 | +7.6% |
| Mar 13, 2019 | 1E | 4 BR | $5,500,000 | -21.4% |
| Mar 12, 2019 | 2E | 4 BR | $6,500,000 | -7.1% |
| Sep 21, 2018 | 1W | 3 BR | $3,900,000 | +0.1% |
| Nov 14, 2017 | 7E | 4 BR | $8,475,000 | -3.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2015) cleared a median $2,833/sf across 1 sale. Sales close on average -6.7% below ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2022 | 9W | $4,400,000 |
| Mar 25, 2019 | 1-E | $5,550,000 |
| Apr 25, 2018 | 3E/4E | $17,750,000 |
| Aug 2, 2013 | GR1 | $1,450,000 |
| Oct 12, 2010 | PH12W | $13,900,000 |
| Jan 28, 2008 | 2W | $4,500,000 |
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01201-0029) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 271 CPW, also evaluate its Central Park West neighbors:
- 262 Central Park West (The White House) — Sugarman & Berger 1929 Italian Renaissance cooperative, the adjoining blockfront to the south
- 275 Central Park West — same-block prewar cooperative neighbor
- 279 Central Park West — Central Park West cooperative to the north
- 241 Central Park West — prewar Central Park West cooperative
- 295 Central Park West — Central Park West cooperative peer
The Roebling Team at 271 Central Park West
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Central Park West, the Upper West Side, and the broader park-facing Manhattan market. We publish this profile because Central Park West cooperative buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural attribution, board posture, transactional mechanics, and pricing at the apartment level — not generic market commentary.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 271 CPW, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.