Central Park Place

 skyscraper, condominium, 1998_construction

628-foot, 56-story postmodern residential building completed in 1988. Designed by Davis, Brody & Associates, it is clad in pale-grey-green aluminum and glass. The tower sits atop a square 7-story base. The tall ground floor, clad in a slightly darker-green, has four plate-glass storefronts along the north part of the east facade on the avenue, with a service entrance to the south and a subway entrance at the southeast corner. The south facade on 57th Street has more storefronts and the main entrance in the 2nd bay from the west; both the entrance and storefronts are outlined in grey metal. The entrance has a glass-and-bronze revolving door framed by two traditional glass-and-bronze doors, covered by a wide, peaked, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk.

Above the ground floor, which is capped by a rounded band course, the base's south facade has (from left to right) a bay of double-windows, two tripartite window bays, another double-window bay, a bay of single-windows, and two more tripartite window bays flanking a double-window bay. These floors have light-grey-green aluminum paneling, with slightly darker-green at the two western tripartite bays. Only the four tripartite bays extend up to the 7th floor, with the others ending at the 6th. The west facade of the base also has light-grey-green paneling with accents of the darker green color around some of the windows. There are seven bays, with a tripartite window and a single-window at the south end. The other five have double-windows, with much smaller double-windows at the 3rd, 5th, & 7th floors. A projecting metal screen caps the base on both facades, enclosing terrace space on the roof of the base.

The upper floors are set back from the base on the south and east sides. The south and north elevations have two boldly-projecting bays of bay windows flanking two bays of double-windows; all of the bay windows have a wide pane in each of the three facets. To the east of the east projecting bay is another bay of double-windows, and an end bay of wide tripartite windows that slightly projects and ends at the 29th floor. The projecting bays and the east end bay have darker green aluminum cladding than the light-grey elsewhere.

The east facade also has two bays of projecting windows, running up to the 29th-floor setback. On either side are end bays with double-windows, ending at the same setback. In between the bays windows are two single-windows flanking a central bay of double-windows. Like the south and north facades, the projecting bays have darker green cladding, and there are bands of the same cladding between the top floor floors of the middle bays, before the setback. Beginning at the 29th floor there is a single, central projecting bay, with a wide window bay on either side. The set-back ends of the east facade have projecting balconies at the 36th & 37th, 41st & 42nd, 46th & 47th, and 51st & 52nd floors.

The four penthouse floors at the top are slightly set back from the north and south sides, and the projecting bay windows end at the 51st floor on the north and south elevations, and at the 53rd floor on the east. There are five large bays of windows on each of the four elevations at the penthouse levels, with setbacks at the northeast and southeast corners above the 55th floor.

The rear, west facade has end bays with large single-windows running all the way up to the 52nd-floor setback. Between the floors at the end bays are darker green metal panels that extend to the north and south edges where they meet the western bay windows of the north and south facades. In the middle of the west facade there is a recessed middle bay of two single-windows running from the 34th-47th floor. The 48th-52nd floor at this bay have tripartite windows. Between the center bay and the north end bay is a bay of single-windows beginning at the 15th floor, and another bay of single-windows between the center bay and south end bay begins at the 29th floor.

Topping the roof is an octagonal water tower enclosure with pale-green aluminum paneling and square openings on the angled facets. The building contains 296 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by Pop's Pizzas, Central Park Cleaners & Tailoring, Dunkin', Baked by Melissa bakery, Paris Baguette, and Juice Generation.