15 Central Park West

15 Central Park West
General information
Status Complete
Type Residential condominium
Architectural style New Classical
Address 15 Central Park West,
New York, New York, U.S.[1]
Coordinates 40°46′10″N 73°58′52″W / 40.76944°N 73.98111°W / 40.76944; -73.98111Coordinates: 40°46′10″N 73°58′52″W / 40.76944°N 73.98111°W / 40.76944; -73.98111
Current tenants 202 units[2]
Construction started 2005[1]
Completed 2008[1]
Cost $950 million (2008)
Height
Roof 550.01 feet (167.64 m)[1]
Technical details
Floor count 35 floors[2]
Design and construction
Architect Robert A.M. Stern Architects[2]
Developer Arthur Zeckendorf,
William Zeckendorf

15 Central Park West is a condominium apartment building located at the corner of West 61st Street and Central Park West in New York City. Construction started in 2005 and was completed in 2008, costing a total of $950 million ($1,100,000,000 in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation). The building was designed in a New Classical style by Robert A.M. Stern Architects.[3]

Development

The building was constructed by developers Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf of Zeckendorf Development, grandsons of real estate developer William Zeckendorf, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Eyal Ofer's Global Holdings Inc.[4][5]15 Central Park West is considered by some to be one of New York's most prestigious residential addresses.[6] The location, described as "the most expensive site in Manhattan" (purchased for $401 million in 2004 ($520,000,000 in current dollar terms), comprises an entire, albeit small, city block on Central Park West, formerly occupied by the somewhat dilapidated Mayflower Hotel (a 1926 Neo-Renaissance building designed by the architect Emery Roth) and a vacant lot.[7]

Architecture

As designed, 15 Central Park West is divided into two sections, a 19-story tower on Central Park West known as "the house," joined by a glass-enclosed lobby to a 35-story tower on Broadway. It includes such amenities as a private driveway to screen residents from paparazzi, a cinema with 20 seats, and a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) fitness center with a 75-foot (22.86 m) swimming pool.[8][9]

Critical notes

The AIA Guide to New York City lamented Robert A.M. Stern's "attempted re-incarnation" of the luxurious apartment buildings built on Central Park West between the two world wars. The AIA criticized how "everything's exaggerated, retro and gigantic" and characterized the building as inferior to its next door neighbor, The Century. [10] However, The New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that 15 Central Park West was designed to "echo" Central Park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings.[11] He described the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues."[7] He compared 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920s, 778 Park Avenue, 834 Fifth Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue, and 740 Park Avenue.[7] 15 Central Park West's limestone facade uses material from "the same quarry that was a source for the Empire State Building".[12] The floor plan was designed so that almost all rooms have an open view and layouts that borrow heavily from the styles commonly found in the 1920s.[13]

Notable residents

Noted residents include or have included Robert De Niro, Sting, Norman Lear, Denzel Washington, Bob Costas, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, steel magnate and philanthropist Leroy Schecter, Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev and his daughter Ekaterina Rybolovleva,[14] former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, businessman Min Kao,[15] NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, and baseball player Alex Rodriguez.[8]

Arthur MacArthur IV, the son of General Douglas MacArthur lived in the Mayflower Hotel that previously occupied the site until 2004. When the building was demolished to make way for 15 Central Park West he moved to Greenwich Village.[16]

See also

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Tower of 15 Central Park West" on Emporis.com
  2. 1 2 3 "15 Central Park West" Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine. on the Robert A. M. Stern Associates website
  3. ↑ "15 Central Park West: Classicists' Lucky Day". Curbed. October 11, 2005. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ "15 Central Park West construction commences". Globes. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Craig Karmin, Developers Team Up With a Man Behind the Scenes, The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2013
  6. ↑ Window on the Park: New York's Most Prestigious Properties on Central Park (The Master Architect Series) D. Fitzgerald, Images Publishing, 2009, pp. 172-5.
  7. 1 2 3 The King of Central Park West, Vanity Fair, Paul Goldberger, September 2008
  8. 1 2 A-Rod joins Sting, Denzel Washington, other rich and famous at 15 Central Park West, Owen Moritz, February 28, 2010, Daily News Archived 2010-03-01 at WebCite
  9. ↑ The 15 Central Park West Rundown
  10. ↑ American Institute of Architects., White, N., & Willensky, E. (1978). AIA guide to New York City. New York: Macmillan. p. 390.
  11. ↑ Goldberger, Paul. Why Architecture Matters, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 215
  12. ↑ The Services and Specifications, Fifteen Central Park West
  13. ↑ Goldberger, Paul. "Past Perfect", The New Yorker, August 27, 2007. Accessed October 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ Na Zdarovia Dmitry Rybolovlev! Fertilizer Kingpin Buys Sandy Weill's $88 M. Penthouse, New York Observer, December 18, 2011.
  15. ↑ Karmin, Craig (January 6, 2011). "CEO of GPS Maker Locates a New Home". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571388/How-wily-hermit-rent-controlled-New-York-City-apartment-managed-squeeze-17-million-dollars-real-estate-developers-built-skyscraper-home-stars.html
Sources
  • Goldberger, Paul (September 2008). "The King of Central Park West". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
  • Yang, Jai Lynn (2007-12-10). "House of the Holy Moly". Fortune. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
Bibliography
  • Gross, Michael (2014). House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 416. ISBN 9781451666212.
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