The Central Park View Apartments

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161-foot, 17-story Neo-Tudor cooperative-apartment building completed in 1926 for the 415 Central Park West Corp. Designed by Deutsch & Schneider, it is clad in red brick with limestone trim and a low, light-grey granite water table. The main entrance is centered on Central Park West, with bronze-and-glass double-doors and very narrow sidelights below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. Inside, the Tudor-style lobby is restored with original stained glass and terrazzo floors. The entryway is flanked by 2-story paired pilasters also framing a double-window in a stone surround at the 2nd floor, and supporting an entablature with a dentiled cornice, with two pairs of urns over the pilasters at the 3rd floor.

To either side the symmetrical facade has three single-windows (with the outer one replaced at the ground floor by a secondary entrance with a black wooden door), a double-window bay, and single-window end bays. The end sections are clad in limestone on the lower three floors, keyed at the inner edge. Between the bottom two floors the end bays have white stone spandrel panels with garlands. Smaller stone panels are between the trios of single-windows, decorated with shields and ribbons, and there are small rosettes between the two bottom floors at the double-window bays. The 2nd-floor windows have stone sills, brick lintels, and low iron railings across the bottoms of the single-window trios. A broad stone band course tops the 2nd floor, with a double string course above the 3rd.

The end bays have brick banding beginning at the 4th floor, and thin stone sill courses below every second floor across the middle of the facade. All of the windows have brick lintels except for the single-window trios at the 4th floor, which are topped by white stone arches decorated with shields and ribbons, and edged in brick, with white keystones. The center at this floor has a larger shield flanked by ribbons.

The 14th floor is set off by a double string course, and a thicker band course sets off the 16th floor. The end bays have large, projecting stone surrounds at the 14th floor, with cornices, and the single-window trios have 2-story pilasters and surrounds at the 14th-15th floors. The 16th floor is capped by a scalloped, pale-green metal roof cornice. The 17th-floor penthouse is set back above this cornice, and is U-shaped, wrapping around a deep light well at the west side of the building; it is faced in tan stone, with terrace space in front.

The south facade on 101st Street is similar to the east facade. It has four single-windows grouped together in the middle, followed by another single-window, a double-window, and farther out are end bays with single-windows. A bay of small bathroom windows in inserted between the west double-window and single-window, and another is between the east double-window and end bay. There are no doors at the ground floor, and the ornament and trim matches the design established on the east facade.

The rear facades are bright white-painted stucco. The south wing on the west facade has three single-windows at the south end, followed by small bathroom windows and a double-window, with a black metal fire escape running down the middle. The north wing has three single-windows and two fire escapes, and the light well is single-, double-, and smaller bathroom windows. The north facade has three single-windows and a pair of smaller bathroom windows, as well as a short west-facing section with another of each.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1987, with 91 apartments.

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