- Year built
- 1988
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 295
- Floors
- 56
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- 24-hour doorman and concierge, on-site parking garage, indoor swimming pool, fitness center with yoga and boxing rooms, sauna and massage facilities, a landscaped outdoor terrace, private guest suites for residents' visitors, and bicycle storage
- Pets
- Confirm current terms with the managing agent
- Flip tax
- None documented — verify against the by-laws at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,731
- Listing discount
- 2.9%
- Recorded sales
- 294
- On record
- 2003–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at Central Park Place would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
Central Park Place was one of the tallest residential towers in the city when it topped out in 1988, and it remains a defining silhouette on the West 57th Street skyline. Rising 56 stories on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue and West 57th Street — two blocks from Central Park's southwest corner and a short walk from Columbus Circle — it delivered a large-format, full-service condominium in a corridor that, at the time, had far fewer of them than it does today.
The building's thesis is height, light, and services at a per-foot below the Central Park-front trophy market to the east. Davis, Brody & Associates gave the tower a distinctive gray-green glass-and-aluminum skin — a color chosen to associate the building with the park it points toward — and a run of five-sided bay windows that open three-directional exposures on the upper floors. For buyers who want a high-floor, view-driven condominium near Columbus Circle without the pricing of Billionaires' Row a few blocks east, Central Park Place has held its position for more than three decades.
Architecture and unit composition
Davis, Brody & Associates designed a slender, tapering tower clad in gray-green glass and aluminum panels, its most recognizable feature the five-sided projecting bay windows that give upper-floor residences light and outlook in three directions. The residential floors sit above a base of commercial floors, and the approximately 295 apartments run from studios through two-bedroom layouts, with the most valuable exposures reaching toward Central Park and the open sky over Midtown. As with any late-1980s condominium, renovation quality and finish level vary line to line — original-condition and gut-renovated units trade at meaningfully different per-foot levels.
Building operations
Central Park Place runs as a full-service condominium: 24-hour doorman and concierge, an on-site parking garage, an indoor swimming pool, a fitness center with yoga and boxing rooms, sauna and massage facilities, a landscaped outdoor terrace, private guest suites available for residents' visitors, and bicycle storage. Common charges reflect the amenity depth and the operating cost of a tall, full-service tower; the offering plan and current house rules are on file in The Roebling Research Library.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $249,812/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $495,040/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $71 – $140
- Modeled exposure split equally across 295 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
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.
Management & transfer contacts
Recent sales
Central Park Place trades in the mid band of the Columbus Circle / West 57th condominium market, with per-square-foot pricing driven heavily by floor, exposure, and renovation condition. High-floor units with park-direction or open-sky bay-window exposures command the building's premium; lower and original-condition units anchor the value end. The per-foot generally remains below the Central Park-front trophy market a few blocks east while offering the same walk to the park and Columbus Circle. Apartment-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence. Financial specifics — recent closing prices, common charges, and assessments — should be verified at offer stage.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2026 | 41E | 1 BR · 2 BA · 875 sf | $1,250,000 | $1,429/sf | -13.8% |
| Jul 17, 2026 | 52C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,573 sf | $3,175,000 | $2,018/sf | -23.5% |
| May 28, 2026 | 16D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,033 sf | $2,100,000 | $2,033/sf | -6.7% |
| Apr 7, 2026 | 27A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 789 sf | $1,606,000 | $2,035/sf | -5.5% |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 36C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,466 sf | $3,800,000 | $2,592/sf | -10.6% |
| Nov 7, 2025 | 14C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,236 sf | $2,450,000 | $1,982/sf | -6.8% |
| Nov 6, 2025 | 40B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 781 sf | $1,575,000 | $2,017/sf | off-mkt |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 29D | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 729 sf | $1,257,500 | $1,725/sf | -6.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,731/sf (floor-adjusted) across 4 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.9% from the last 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.
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 1-01048-7503). 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.
At the recent median sale of $1.57M (21 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $66,703 to close, or 4.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $15,750
- Mortgage recording tax: $22,739
- Title insurance: $7,087
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $21,126
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Buy the floor and the bay. The five-sided bay windows and high floors are the building's differentiator; a mid-floor interior line is a very different apartment from an upper-floor park-direction bay. Underwrite the specific exposure, not the building average.
Condition drives the per-foot. This is a late-1980s tower — original-condition and gut-renovated units trade at materially different levels. Price the renovation you are or aren't inheriting.
Condo flexibility is real. Pied-à-terre and investment use are accommodated under the declaration; subletting is permitted subject to the by-laws; closings run on a condominium timeline of roughly 30 to 45 days.
Model the full carry. Common charges plus property taxes plus utilities and insurance — a tall, full-service tower carries real monthly costs. Run the complete number and verify current figures at offer stage.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the view and the light. The bay-window exposures and high-floor outlook are the marketing story — they widen the buyer pool and support the premium.
Position against Columbus Circle, not the trophy market. Your comparable set is the surrounding West 57th and Columbus Circle condominiums, not the Central Park-front trophy towers to the east.
Condition sells the per-foot. A renovated line photographs and prices well above original condition — stage and present accordingly.
Closing timelines are condo-fast. 30 to 45 days from contract to closing.
Comparable buildings
- 555 West 59th Street (The Element) — amenity-rich condominium near Columbus Circle
- 220 Central Park South — the Central Park South trophy condominium a short walk east
- 347 West 57th Street — neighboring West 57th condominium on the same block corridor
- 100 Riverside Boulevard (The Avery) — nearby Riverside South condominium
- 155 West 70th Street — Upper West Side condominium to the north
More Chelsea buildings
- 291 Seventh Avenue — 1907 condominium
- 300 West 30th Street — 2020 condominium
- 301 West 53rd Street (Fifty Third and Eighth) — 1980 condominium by SLCE Architects
- 304 West 55th Street — 1941 co-op
- 305 West 18th Street — 1950 condominium
- 305 West 52nd Street (879 Eighth Avenue) — 1942 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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