Category — Central Park West

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.”

Valerie Rockefeller Wayne and her husband Steven Wayne just sold their Upper West Side co-op apartment on the tenth floor of 40 West 77th Street for $4 million.

She is the daughter of Senator Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat representing West Virginia. Wayne is the founder and CEO of Jensen Group, a venture capital and investment firm based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His firm bio indicates that he is a resident of Russia and a citizen of the United States.

The buyers are Jonathan Ewig and Linda Novosad Ewig. A quick Google search suggests that Jonathan may be the CFO of Porky Products, a privately held wholesaler of meat, meat products and seafood.

The coop has a few location perks:

• Fantastic views of balloons being blown up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade the night before it starts down Central Park West and Broadway.
• Views of the American Museum of Natural History and Central Park
• A short walk to Fairway, Zabars, and H&H Bagels.

The estate of acclaimed actor Tony Randall sold the 10-room, 6th floor Beresford apartment at Central Park West and 81st Street for $17.85 Million to Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit in September 2007.


Heather Harlan Randall and Tony Randall raised their two children there, in good company with thespian neighbors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, Mike Baker, and a host of other Broadway and Carnegie Hall notables.

The Beresford at West 81st Street and Central Park West is one of Manhattan’s most stunning cooperative apartments.

You get glorious views of the park, the amazing Diana Ross playground across the street for your kids to go crazy, the Museum of Natural History, and a face-to-face view of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons when they are blown up the night before the event.