The Centurion

As a condominium, The Centurion offers the ownership flexibility serious Midtown buyers want. Financing is flexible — there are no co-op-style financing caps. There is no board admissions process — purchases clear through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board package and interview. Pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment purchases are customary at a condominium of this caliber, and resale and subletting are materially freer than in a cooperative. Service is white-glove: a 24-hour doorman and concierge, the Pei-designed lobby water garden, a private fitness center, and a 65-car attended garage — an unusual on-site amenity for a building of this size and location.

The building is clad in Chamesson limestone from France — the same stone used at the Four Seasons Hotel — set on a base of dark Jet Mist granite. Its signature gestures are the cascading terraces and the five dramatic "lanterns": double-height windows with 17-foot ceilings that rise above the tower's tapered setbacks. The lobby is a Pei composition in itself, organized around a water garden with a waterfall and reflecting pool.

The 48 residences range from one- to four-bedroom layouts, with ceiling heights from roughly 10 to 17 feet, 13 homes with private terraces, and three penthouses crowning the building. The finishes match the architecture's ambition. Value within the building is set by floor, exposure, ceiling height, terrace, and the penthouse and lantern homes, which command the strongest pricing. The combination of Pei design and genuine scarcity — fewer than 50 homes — defines the building's market.

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 (2025) cleared a median $1,191/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 11.0% 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 1-01272-7501) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

The advantages of a condominium apply in full: flexible financing, no board interview, and the customary acceptance of pied-à-terre, trust, and LLC purchases. The building's distinguishing features — Pei design, French limestone, the lantern windows, the attended garage — are durable value drivers and worth weighing carefully against floor and exposure. Diligence centers on the offering plan, the common-charge and tax structure, the reserve, and the specific home's ceiling height, terrace, and views. We help buyers underwrite the apartment, weigh the comparison set, and structure the purchase.

The story sells itself: I.M. Pei's only ground-up residential condominium in New York, in French limestone, with a sculptural lobby water garden, on a prime Midtown block. The marketing core is the architecture and the scarcity, and the comparison set is the top tier of new and recent luxury condominiums in the Fifth Avenue corridor. Presenting a home's ceiling height, terrace, and light accurately — and positioning a lantern or penthouse residence on its uniqueness — is what produces a standout result in a building this small.

If you're considering The Centurion, also evaluate these Midtown and Fifth Avenue–corridor buildings:

• 150 West 56th Street — a Midtown high-rise
• 230 West 56th Street — a West 56th Street tower
• 25 West 54th Street — Regent House, a pre-war co-op two blocks south
• 17 West 54th Street — a West 54th Street building near Fifth Avenue