425 Central Park West

The exterior uses brick and a regular pattern of apartment windows. Inside, the split between raised entrance areas and sunken living rooms is characteristic of many original plans. Railings separate the levels in some apartments, retaining a visual connection between dining and living space.

The smaller inventory includes studios and one-bedroom homes, with recorded interiors around 500 to 900 square feet. Separate kitchens occur in original layouts; later renovations have changed cabinetry, appliances and openings between rooms. A sunken living room also introduces internal steps that remain part of the apartment's circulation despite elevator access to the floor.

Larger homes include two-bedroom layouts and combinations with three bedrooms and multiple bathrooms. Joined apartments can produce a wider frontage and more extensive living space, but their plans depend on the original lines that were combined. Some of the highest total resale consideration has involved these expanded homes.

The park-facing elevation creates a specific exposure advantage for certain apartments. Others face the street side or interior portions of the block. A top-floor combination and a compact lower-floor home can therefore differ in both room count and outlook, even though they share the same address and building services.

Doorman coverage is provided during afternoon and evening hours, with a resident superintendent supporting the property. A fitness room, central laundry, bicycle storage and separate storage facilities supplement the apartments. The entrance staffing schedule is part-time.

The DOF residential ownership count shows one owner holding 21 of the 60 residential condominium lots, or 35%. That is a material concentration for project financing and condominium governance. A lender assessing this building will need the current project information alongside the individual buyer's application.

The condominium's residential lots are Class 2. There is no building-level tax abatement identified on the current roll, so an older advertisement describing a benefit should not be used to project a current owner's taxes. Apartment tax bills and common charges are separate obligations.

A DOB alteration signed off in 2013 addressed the apartment count at the cellar level and recorded an apartment combination. That history makes the approved configuration particularly important for lower-level homes and combinations: the current room arrangement must correspond to the space legally included in the apartment.

Recent sales

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,050/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 2.8% 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 1-01838-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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.

• 420 Central Park West — A nearby condominium of similar vintage and low-rise scale, with the same park-front setting.
• The Braender — An earlier and taller condominium, useful for comparing more ornate prewar architecture along the corridor.
• 478 Central Park West — Another relatively low prewar condominium with a smaller residential inventory near the park's northern end.
• 467 Central Park West — A taller prewar condominium offering a different range of elevated park-facing exposures.
• 400 Central Park West — A much larger postwar condominium, with a broader resale pool and a substantially different site arrangement.
• 455 Central Park West — A historic institutional conversion paired with a tower, for buyers considering a more elaborate architectural and amenity program.