15 Central Park West

15 Central Park West is a 2008 condominium on the block between West 61st and West 62nd Streets, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and built on the site of the former Mayflower Hotel. The City has recorded 409 priced deeds in the building since it came to market: 214 original purchases from the sponsor across 2007 and 2008, and 152 resales from 2009 to today. Over the last five years the building has turned over about eight to ten apartments a year, at a median resale price of $14.25 million. I represented the buyer of unit 8C in the original sellout, and the record of that purchase is below with everything else.

How many apartments are there, really?

You will see both 202 and 230 quoted for this building, which is confusing if you are trying to work out how thin the resale market actually is. The deed record explains the gap.

The City holds 211 separate apartment designations here, plus 31 lots that are storage, garage or service space rather than apartments. Neither number is the headline figure you want on its own. A published count of 202 is close to the number of apartments that have genuinely traded; a count of 230 is closer to the total number of deeded lots. Apartments have also been combined over the years, which removes a home from the market without removing its designation from the record.

The number that matters more than any of them: against roughly 200 apartments, eight to ten resales a year means about four per cent of the building changes hands annually. If you are waiting for a particular line or a particular exposure, you are waiting on a handful of apartments a year, not a market.

What apartments have sold for

These are recorded resales only. The 2007 and 2008 sponsor sellout is excluded, because a sellout price tells you what the developer was asking in a particular year, not what the building is worth now.

Read the medians with care. Eight sales is a small enough number that one penthouse moves the figure for the whole year: the 2025 median of $7.50 million sits below 2024 and 2026 largely because the apartments that happened to trade that year were smaller, not because the building lost a third of its value. The range column is the more honest guide to what the building is, and it is wide, because a sixth-floor two bedroom and a fortieth-floor penthouse are not the same asset.

One line, three sales, nineteen years

Unit 8B is next door to the apartment I sold. Its full recorded history is a better education in this building than any average I could give you.

That is the pattern I would want a buyer here to understand. The move from the sponsor price happened in the first decade. Since 2017 this line has held its value and no more. A building like this one has stopped being a growth story and become a store of value, which is a perfectly good reason to buy it, and a poor reason to expect the next ten years to look like the first ten.

What the record cannot tell you

A recorded price is the number on the deed. It is not what the apartment cost to own or what the buyer actually got.

Within one line, the difference between floors is light and noise, and neither appears in the data. The House, the nineteen storey section along Central Park West, and the Tower set back toward Broadway are treated identically by the City and are not remotely the same experience. Condition is invisible: two apartments on the same line can be fifteen years apart in their kitchens and bathrooms, and that gap can run to seven figures. Monthly carrying costs do not appear in a deed at all, and at this level they are a material part of the decision.

And the record is slow. A deed is recorded weeks to months after the parties agreed the price, so the most recent entry in any table on this page describes a negotiation that happened earlier than its date suggests.

A note on who lives here

This building is written about constantly for its residents. You will not find that here. The people who buy at this level are entitled to the same discretion I would want, and a broker who trades in it is telling you exactly how they would treat your own purchase. What I will tell you is what the apartments are, what they have sold for, and what I think the next one is worth.

My own transaction here

I represented the buyer of unit 8C, a three bedroom of 3,454 square feet in the original sellout. The deed was recorded on 20 November 2007 at $11,017,465. It is on my notable sales page along with the rest of my work, and you are welcome to check the figure against the City's record, which is where I took it from.

I am not the listing agent for this building and I have nothing for sale in it as I write this. This page exists because people ask me what apartments here are worth, and because the honest answer takes a table rather than a sentence.

Common questions

What do apartments at 15 Central Park West sell for?

Across the last five years, recorded resales have run from $3.33 million to $33.89 million, at a median of $14.25 million. The 2026 median so far is $15.40 million across nine recorded sales. Where an individual apartment falls in that range depends far more on its line, floor and condition than on the year it sold.

How many apartments are in the building?

The City's record holds 211 apartment designations plus 31 storage, garage and service lots. Published figures of 202 and 230 both circulate; the difference is whether ancillary lots are counted, and combined apartments complicate it further.

How often do apartments come up for sale?

Eight to ten a year in recent years, against roughly 200 apartments. That is about four per cent of the building annually, so a specific line or exposure may only appear once every few years.

Is 15 Central Park West a co-op or a condominium?

It is a condominium. Each apartment is separately deeded, which is why the sales are in the public record in the first place, and the purchase process is materially different from the co-op board approval most pre-war buildings on this stretch of Central Park West require.

What is the difference between the House and the Tower?

They are the two sections of the same condominium. The House is the nineteen storey section fronting Central Park West; the Tower rises thirty-five storeys set back toward Broadway. The City records sales in both identically, so any building-wide figure blends two quite different kinds of apartment.

Has the building held its value?

Through about 2017, yes, and strongly. Since then the picture is flatter. Unit 8B illustrates it: roughly double its sellout price by 2017, then marginally below that 2017 figure when it sold again in 2026.

Where do these numbers come from?

Every figure is from the City of New York record of recorded deeds for this address. I counted priced deeds only, collapsed transactions recorded against several lots on the same day at the same price so bulk and combined closings are not double counted, excluded storage, garage and service lots from the apartment figures, and separated the 2007 to 2008 sponsor sellout from later resales. Deeds continue to be recorded after a sale closes, so the most recent year is a floor rather than a final count.