Central Park West
Building Profile ·
The Alden
225 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
AT A GLANCE
Type
Co-op
About the building
Why The Alden matters
The Alden is among the most architecturally and historically distinctive CPW cooperatives — a Bing & Bing apartment hotel from 1925, designed by Emery Roth at the peak of his pre-Art Deco residential work, that converted to a cooperative in 1984. Its 15-story Neo-Renaissance composition —…
Recent Sales
What to know if you're buying
Board approval is rigorous but the building's policies are notably flexible. Pied-à-terre, co-purchasing, and pets are all permitted — making the Alden one of the more accessible tier-one CPW addresses for buyers who don't fit traditional primary-residence-only profiles.
Guarantors and parents-buying-for-children are not permitted. Buyers without sufficient personal financial profiles…
What to know if you're selling
Pricing spans a broader range than at most CPW co-ops. The unit-mix breadth — studios to multi-bedroom combined units — means seller pricing strategy benefits from broker familiarity with the building's specific inventory dynamics. Comparable-sales analysis is more useful at the Alden than at smaller, more variable buildings.
Buyer pool…
The Roebling Team at
The Alden
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Central Park West, the Upper West Side, and the broader Park-facing Manhattan market. We publish this building profile because CPW buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architecture, board culture, transactional mechanics, and the realities of pricing at the apartment level — not…