$1.875M Paid for High Floor Coop Apt. at 65 CPW

A co-op apartment at 65 Central Park West just closed for $1,875,000, according to New York City public records.

The sellers were J. Richard Blewitt and and the buyers are Daniel Trencher and Barbara Trencher.

Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Susan Kaplan had the listing on this 15th floor apartment in this 16-floor Emory Roth building built in a neo-Renaissance style. The co-op sold for $50k less than the asking price of $1.9 million.
In her listing, Kaplan described the apartment as “wonderful and spacious…on a high floor in one Central Park West’s most sought after full service buildings.” Shareholders have storage bins in the basement, in addition to common laundry facilities.

65 Central Park West has a full-time doorman and concierge. When the apartment was first listed, maintenance charges were reportedly $1,923 per month. The co-op requires shareholders to make a down-payment for at 20-percent of the purchase price. An added bonus: it’s a pet-friendly cooperative.

A nice aesthetic feature of this apartment is that the air conditioners are “though-the-wall” units, so they don’t block the windows. It seems unusual that New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (’LPC’) would allow through these air conditioners since this historic building is located within the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District.

In 2005, a citywide advocate for the preservation of buildings that fall under the LPC’s jurisdiction complained that the co-op’s replacement of windows should be subject to a master plan that would require future window replacement for all apartments to have 6 over 6 windows in keeping with its reportedly “historically accurate appearance.” The LPC, however, denied the Historic District Council’s application. One thing that didn’t help their argument: the advocacy group could not find “historic photographs …to have a sense of what the original window configuration may have been.”