Extravagant $16,500,000 Manhattan Penthouse Is the Stuff of Legends

With as crazy as housing prices are these days, a lot of sizable but simple homes in high-cost-of-living areas can end up getting priced like luxury real estate, and that's unfortunate. But if you go further and explore the far end of "true" luxury real estate, the prices become so high and the properties become so extravagant that it doesn't even feel like reality anymore. You're in the realm of real-life fantasy.

This extravagant Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park is a perfect example of said "real-life fantasy." It looks like an extravagant set ripped straight from a romantic movie set in NYC, but this is a very real, very luxurious apartment that you can buy... if you have $16.5 million to spare, that is.

This dreamlike apartment tour comes to us from ultra-luxury real estate company @serhant , owned by Ryan Serhant - you might know him as one of the real estate agents from Million Dollar Listing New York . His team deals in luxury homes across New York City , and this is merely one very fabulous example.

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This place has stunning modern fairytale vibes written all over it, from the opening shot of its spiral staircase , accompanied by a mural depicting Central Park, to the living room and giant terrace that overlook the real Central Park . It's a penthouse apartment fit for a king - and at $16,500,000, you'd need a king's ransom to afford it!

A Central Park Penthouse

Of course, this little glimpse on TikTok was only the beginning. Ryan Serhant also recorded a longer 11-minute tour of this fabulous pre-war, Neo-Renaissance penthouse apartment, located at 65 Central Park West. If you thought the place's romantic terrace was breathtaking, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Needlessly to say, this place has space for days, a relative rarity in Manhattan apartments (even among some of the more high-end ones). The penthouse's wraparound terrace alone measures roughly 80 feet in length! Across the penthouse's two floors, there are four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, two living rooms (one of which could double as a library or even another bedroom), a full kitchen and dining room (not even counting the small butler's pantry, wet bar, and mini-kitchen upstairs), a study, a laundry room ... and that still doesn't even cover it all!

According to Ryan Serhant, this penthouse was originally built in 1927 by architect Emory Roth, and while the space has obviously undergone a lot of renovations over the past near-century, it hasn't lost its elegant Neo-Renaissance edge. There are marble features all over the apartment (particularly in the bathrooms and fireplaces), terrace landscaping fit for a Mediterranean palace, high ceilings, breathtaking park views from all the major rooms, and - of course - that jaw-dropping centerpiece staircase, all of which Serhant lovingly details in his walkthrough.

It's New York City opulence at its most extravagant: enormous and fancy enough to look right at home on Succession , but with a warm, romantic elegance that feels lifted straight from a modern fairytale - the Roy family could never. According to its Zillow listing , the penthouse at 65 CPW was listed for sale by Serhant last October, and so far it hasn't found its next owner. At $16,500,000, it's just a little outside of my personal budget. Still, if I happen to win the Powerball before this dreamy penthouse gets snatched up... well, let's just say, there will be signs!

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