By Gus Saltonstall
There is most likely no more iconic residence on the Upper West Side than The Dakota building.
It is extremely rare for an apartment with the storied address at 1 West 72nd Street, on the corner of Central Park West, to hit the open market, but that is what happened on Friday morning.
A listing has gone live for a fifth-floor apartment with four to five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and five fireplaces. The apartment is 4,500 square feet, making it one of the largest in the building, and has 12-and-a-half foot ceilings, and 10-foot mahogany doors.
The price? $10 million.
“The Dakota. The crown jewel. Among the most extraordinary residences of Central Park West,” Brown Harris Stevens’ Roberto Cabrera, who is the listing agent for the apartment, said in a video. “It’s the most storied residential building in New York’s long history. Like no other, The Dakota established itself among the most renowned and recognizable residences in the world, It’s unrivaled in its singularity, rich history, celebrated occupants, and architectural significant that remain to this day.”
Some of those famous former and current occupants include John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Judy Garland, Joe Namath, and Paul Simon.
Here are more photos of the for sale apartment.
You can read more about the available apartment within The Dakota on its listing — HERE.
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I thought $10M seemed reasonable but the $16k monthly charges take me out of the running.
Noone needs four-to-five bedrooms. One sleeps in one bed. Mamdani should seize this travesty under eminent domain and convert it to free housing. This can easily house 75 people.
You’re funny.
It would only cost $1.6 billion in taxpayer money and take 18 years for the conversion.
Haha!
Perhaps he should seize your house as well.
I am happy to contribute to the cause of progress and the bright future. You too, one presumes?
Someone with 4 kids needs four-to-five bedrooms!
You must be new here.
My neighbor has 4 kids in 2 bunk beds in a small bedroom. Try living next door to that sometime. It’s not normal.
Yes, kids can all sleep in one bed. That makes sure they get along.
Standard bunk beds are too generous. You don’t really need more than a ~15 inch opening, like submarine bunks. She can fit at least 6 kids in there, comfortably.
I’ll let her know she’s being too generous, lol. ; )
In the late 60’s one could rent for &500. per month!
In the late 1960s, the median household income was about $8500 a year.
And that was cheap?
Why are the contents of the apartment being sold, such as the piano? As a musician, I’m surprised
Have you tried to sell a large piano in NYC lately?
Have you tried to sell ANY piano in NYC lately? I have. And I can tell you that ever since the pandemic, the secondary market for pianos is GONE. There are people GIVING AWAY baby grand pianos, and no one is taking them.
Part of this is “space”; many people downsized and simply don’t have room for one, especially in no one in the apartment plays regularly.
Another part is $. With prices and inflation rising during the pandemic, there was only a small window before we went into Iran and costs and inflation started riding again that one MIGHT have been able to afford $1000 or more.
But I also think part of it is that kid are simply not learning to play piano – or, indeed, any instrument – anymore. After all, what gets cut first in education? The arts and music. And since one can get a really good piano sounds from an electric keyboard that costs far less, that may also be a factor. Plus, the “influencers,” like Elton and Billy, are pretty much gone, and everyone is a guitarist singer-songwriter now, so that is where the kids are “going.”
It is sad. There used to be a time when almost every home had a piano, even if no one played, so that guests could play. That’s all gone, too.
🙁
Does it say that? I didn’t see that they were selling the contents with the apartment.
There are currently 6 apartments for sale in the Dakota. Not so rare.
Yup. From $5 million to $24 million. I’m torn between a few. lol.
Whoever narrated that video is unbelievably pompous! LOL!!! Nice apartment, but I’ll stick with my little place on Broadway, thanks.
Prospective buyers too rich to care about the kitchen? Or the bathrooms? Maybe it’s being sold as needing a gut-reno.
Witches… All of them witches!
I just bought it.
no park view,!!
I couldn’t find a floorplan either.
At least this one is in great condition. Over the years, I have been in at least five to six apartments in the Dakota, and not all of them were in great condition. And it is not always the tenant’s fault; I have heard from some tenants that “maintenance” is not what you would expect in a building of this stature.
Still, I have been in everything from “small” apartments (total of 7 rooms) to massive ones (11 rooms), and it was always fun being in the building at all.
As for “no park view,” that is probably why the price is only $10 million for a 4-5 bedroom. But I would note that the single most fabulous apartment I visited over the years did not have a park view either (except glancingly), but nevertheless outshined many of those with views.
According to several real estate sites, there are currently six apartments available in the building (I wonder if that “says” something about the building), from $5 million to $24 million. This one is smack dab in the middle, so I’m guessing that the two or three that are more expensive have the park views.
And no park view! Well, you can’t have everything for $10M.
That video had me salivating! What a treat to watch
“The Dakota” , a history
by Birmingham
A fascinating read for an UWSider
Maybe out of orint find it somewhere.
The Dakota board has turned down
Madonna, Cher, and Billy Joel
The approval process is a pain you basically have to give them everything multi year tax returns, escrow maintenance for two years, it goes on and on
The apartment must need major work. Thus the video that devotes so much time to its storied history, and why you don’t see any images of the kitchen or baths. And though lots of people disparage open-plan living, very few families want a kitchen in the back, next to a large formal dining room and located down a long hallway from the living room.
My guess is $2-3 million in reno costs, minimum, plus the headache of doing this in a coop famous for being testy.
See my comment about having been in some of the apartment at the Dakota, the conditions some of them are in, and complaints about the maintenance staff.
Any bidets in those bathrooms?
Nice, homey place. I always like that the Dakota’s entry galleries have fireplaces. Curious that there are four bedrooms but no powder room.
That narration was cringe as the kids say.
Nicer photos that nearly all real estate pics.
Getting board approval is going to be much harder than finding someone with $10 million dollars cash to put down.
That AI video script is all over the place!
You do not have to fill each spare room with kids
Why use the word “rare” when there are actually six apartments available, from $5 million to $24 million?
The Dakota has ~100 total apartment, of which six are available. By comparison, the Ansonia has ~450 apartments, of which only 8 are available. From ~600,000 to ~$2.3 million.
Apparently, an apartment at the Ansonia, despite its size, is “rarer” than an apartment at the Dakota.
Actually, the servant’s quarters in the attic are a lot cheaper if you can get in.
Brings back memories of of the only time I was in a Dakota apartment. In the 1980s Leonard Bernstein lent his apartment on the second floor, northeast corner for a fundraiser for a candidate for the Senate from South “Dakota”. I think his name was Conrad. I went with Howard Samuels wife Lulette. Hard to believe it’s more than 40 years ago.
That must have been an interesting party