Mayflower Hotel

The 74-year-old Mayflower Hotel on Central Park West btw West 61st and 62d Streets was demolished in 2004 and replaced by a new tower block.

15 Central Park West

15 Central Park West is a luxury apartment building erected in 2006-8 by Robert A.M. Stern located at 60th Street and Central Park West. It was built by developers Arthur and William Zeckendorf. 15 CPW is one of New York's most prestigious addresses. The location has been described as "the most expensive site in Manhattan", ($401 million in 2004) an entire, albeit smallish, city block on Central Park formerly occupied by the somewhat dilapidated Mayflower Hotel and a vacant lot.[2] The Mayflower was a 1926 Neo-Renaissance building by Emery Roth.

The building in in two sections, a 19-story tower on Central Park West known as "the house", and a 43-story tower on Broadway joined by a glass-enclosed lobby. It includes such amenities as a private driveway to screen residents from paparazzi.