275 Central Park West
275 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1012010034 · BIN 1031465
- Year built
- 1931
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 114
- Floors
- 18
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Per current lease terms
275 Central Park West is one of Emery Roth's lesser-known CPW commissions — a 1931 Neo-Renaissance apartment building completed in the same year as his Art Deco twin-tower masterworks (the Eldorado, 300 CPW; the Ardsley, 320 CPW) but in a fundamentally different architectural register. Where the Eldorado and Ardsley embraced full Art Deco, 275 CPW was a more restrained, traditionally-detailed pre-war composition in the Neo-Renaissance vocabulary that Roth had refined in his work for Bing & Bing (most notably the Alden at 225 CPW, 1925) earlier in the decade.
The building's persistent rental status is itself unusual. Most CPW pre-wars converted to cooperative or condominium ownership between 1958 and the 1990s; 275 CPW (along with 241 CPW and 295 CPW) is among a small set of CPW Park-facing buildings that have remained rental properties continuously since construction. This represents a meaningful institutional decision by the building's ownership — to hold the asset as a long-term rental rather than to pursue the financial benefits of conversion.
For prospective renters who want pre-war Park-facing CPW architecture in a Roth-designed building without the financial barriers of a co-op purchase, 275 CPW is one of the limited options.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's 114 apartments are distributed across 18 floors. Roth's Neo-Renaissance design produced gracious room proportions characteristic of his Bing & Bing-era work — high ceilings, formal entry galleries, and pre-war architectural detail in the apartment-house tradition rather than the more dramatic Art Deco vocabulary of his contemporaneous CPW landmarks.
Apartments have been renovated to varying degrees across the building's 94-year history. Park-facing apartments on the eastern flank offer direct Central Park views.
Building operations
275 CPW operates as a full-service rental building. The building maintains the pre-war service signature appropriate to its tier — full-time doorman, attended lobby, on-site superintendent — but as a rental property, operational details are subject to landlord control rather than board governance.
The building is not in a cooperative or condominium structure. There is no proprietary lease, no flip tax, no NYC stockholders' abatement, no board approval process. Resident-tenants hold leases rather than shares or units.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2025 | 9D | $2,200,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01201-0034) 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.
The neighborhood
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