295 Central Park West
295 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1012030033 · BIN 1031569
- Year built
- 1941
- Type
- Rental
- Units
- 96
- Floors
- 19
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Per current lease terms
295 Central Park West is Emery Roth's final CPW residential building — completed in June 1941, ten years after his great Art Deco twin-tower commissions (the Eldorado, the Ardsley) and on a fundamentally different architectural register. Where the Eldorado and Ardsley embraced full Art Deco ornament — vertical fluting, stepped massing, Mayan-inspired detail — 295 CPW pivots to Art Moderne, the streamlined design vocabulary that emphasized flowing horizontal lines, rounded corners, wraparound windows, and the deliberate absence of decorative ornament. The shift reflected both Roth's evolution as a designer and the broader architectural shift away from Art Deco's exuberance toward the cleaner, more functional Modernism that would dominate post-war American design.
The building's developmental backstory is itself historically significant. In November 1938, the Northwest Realty Corporation — with Samuel Rudin as president — purchased the existing seven-story New Windsor Apartments at 294–295 Central Park West for $115,000, demolished it, and commissioned Roth & Sons to design a replacement. The project broke ground in 1940 and completed in June 1941. An advertisement in the New York Post on June 24, 1941 promised that the "20-Story Apartment Masterpiece" would be ready for occupancy on August 1; by mid-August the building was 84% leased and 24 families had moved in.
The timing is poignant. Construction completed just months before the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. entry into World War II. The building represents the last major Manhattan residential project of the immediate pre-war era — pre-war in the literal calendar sense, completed before the war began. Construction shortages and material restrictions during the war years effectively ended luxury Manhattan apartment-house construction for nearly a decade after 295 CPW was finished.
Like 241 CPW and 275 CPW, 295 CPW has remained a rental property continuously since construction. The Rudin family — through Northwest Realty Corporation and successor entities — has held the building for over 87 years, an exceptionally long single-family ownership tenure in Manhattan residential real estate.
For prospective renters who want streamlined pre-war Park-facing architecture in a Roth-designed building (and the only Roth-designed CPW Art Moderne work), 295 CPW is unique.
Architecture and unit composition
Roth's Art Moderne design produced apartments with the streamlined design characteristic of the vocabulary: gently rounded corners that let windows wrap the building's sides, setback terraces on the upper floors, and an emphasis on horizontal expression over the vertical fluting of his earlier Art Deco work. The 19-story building plus penthouse is comparatively compact relative to the Eldorado (30 stories) and the Ardsley (22 stories), reflecting both site constraints and the Art Moderne preference for horizontal massing.
Apartments include a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom configurations. The building originally included six ground-floor professional suites (medical/dental offices); four of those were leased to physicians who also took apartments in the building — a model common in 1940s Manhattan luxury residential design that integrated professional space with residential.
Building operations
295 CPW operates as a full-service rental building under continuous Rudin family ownership. 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.
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.
How to read this, and where it comes from
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. City record last verified September 2026.
What to know if you're researching 295 Central Park West as a renter
Emery Roth's final CPW work is itself a credential. Among Roth's CPW commissions, 295 CPW is his sole Art Moderne work and his final building on the avenue. For renters who care about pre-war architectural heritage in the building they rent, 295 CPW carries singular weight.
The Rudin family ownership history is exceptional. Continuous single-family ownership for 87+ years is rare in Manhattan; the building's operating culture reflects a long-tenure landlord rather than the institutional or fund-owned dynamics common at peer rental buildings.
Lease terms are landlord-controlled. Rudin Management determines lease length, renewal terms, rent escalations (subject to applicable rent regulations on regulated units), and pet/sublet policies.
Some units may be rent-regulated; many are market-rate. The mix has shifted over decades. Prospective renters should ask explicitly about regulation status.
Daily-life convenience is upper-CPW. Between 89th and 90th, the building sits in the upper Park-facing residential corridor adjacent to the Reservoir, with proximity to the upper UWS retail and restaurant corridor.
What to know if you're a buyer researching CPW broadly
295 CPW is not currently a purchasable building. Among the persistent CPW rentals (241 CPW, 275 CPW, 295 CPW), 295 CPW is the most architecturally distinctive — Roth's only Art Moderne CPW work and his final CPW commission.
The persistent rental status is a meaningful structural fact about CPW. Three Roth-related buildings (275, 295, and the Bing & Bing-era side-street buildings) and one Schwartz & Gross building (241 CPW) have never converted to ownership structures. The Rudin family alone controls a substantial pre-war CPW rental portfolio — a market position unusual in modern Manhattan and worth understanding when evaluating the CPW buyer landscape.
Comparable rental buildings on CPW
- 241 Central Park West — Schwartz & Gross 1931 Art Deco rental, also Rudin-owned
- 275 Central Park West — Emery Roth 1931 Neo-Renaissance rental
Comparable purchasable buildings on upper CPW (for buyers)
- The Eldorado (300 CPW) — Roth Art Deco twin-tower co-op, immediately south
- The Ardsley (320 CPW) — Roth Art Deco co-op, north
- The St. Urban (285 CPW) — Beaux-Arts co-op, immediately south
- 336 Central Park West — Schwartz & Gross 1929 Egyptian Art Deco co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Central Park West — read The Roebling Team Guide to Central Park West.
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How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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