Welcome to the Upper West Side's finest town home. Situated on the neighborhood's most desirable block, just steps from Central Park, 41 West 70th Street is the fifth in a series of eight beautiful single family homes. Originally designed by the architect Gilbert A. Schellinger in the Renaissance Revival style in 1891, the interior was completely demolished and and re-built into this modern classic. This is not a spec house, but was instead renovated by the current owners who spared no expense in creating a townhouse masterpiece. This private residence was built by an architect with a focus on maintaining light and flow on each floor. It has been meticulously constructed, with similar materials to those chosen by Olmstead & Vaux in their construction of Central Park: blue stone, pigmented stucco, almond tinted mortar, steel casement windows, limestone, clinker & roman brick, copper flashing. The original 120 year old structural beams were planed and woven back into the architecture. The home contains approximately 8,000 square feet of interior space, a five story elevator, six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two full floors of entertaining space, a north and south windowed cellar that creates light and ventilation and is ideal for accommodating a media/play room and gym, a loggia adjacent to the grand living room that looks down upon a beautifully landscaped garden, and a large terrace off the fourth floor that looks out on the skyline that runs along Central Park West. In addition the property has extremely low taxes of $36,371. Experience the best of town house living in this magnificent single family home one half block away from Central Park. Finishes Include: - 20' Wide, 8000+ square feet, five levels plus full height basement - Fully restored facade with new stoop and adjacent planter to Landmark 1891 specifications - Seven huge 7' x 7' steel casement fixed and operable windows - Four wood-burning fireplaces - Pre-wired for AV customization - All new windows with insulated glass - Custom rift & quarter sawn white oak flooring - Restored entryway with original ironwork front doors - Custom steel staircase with elegant blackened iron winding railing from cellar to top floor - Parlor floor loggia with custom wrought iron hand hewn railings - Fourth floor terrace with irrigation system - Landscaped Garden with irrigation, drainage, specimen Japanese maple, 50' Chinese elm tree, high intensity Altima BBQ - Landscaped front yard planter and adjacent trees with irrigation system - Radiant heat throughout cellar, entire kitchen level, all bathrooms as well as both laundries - New custom elevator serving five floors - Gracious 6 bedrooms, - Duravit & Dornbracht fixtures and fittings throughout. - High end appliances (42" SubZero refrigerator, 6 burner Wolf stove, Bosch dishwasher, etc) - Two custom glass 4' x 8' roof skylights - Two laundry rooms located on the 4th floor and cellar - Cellar excavated to provide full height ceilings and floors include radiant heat and full drainage system under slab in addition to sump pump. - Cast iron Kohler tubs - All brick party walls were 100% re-pointed. - Museum style wall construction designed for hanging art throughout - Sound attenuation in walls and between floors - Fully sprinklered - Full security system - Lutron lighting