44 West 105th Street, 65

Principals Only. Privacy, privacy, privacy! Music, music, music! A private gate takes you into your stunning fully furnished art-filled condominium off Central Park with its own baby grand for your personal performances, salons and soirees. Famed jazz pianist Terry Waldo — Wynton Marsalis is a fan — has performed on this piano. The condo's beautiful features include: high ceilings, wood crown moldings, double high windows, an electric fireplace ensconced in an 1860 mantel, Martha Stewart cabinets, name appliances, a Macy's queen in the bedroom — with gorgeous picture frame molding — and a jacuzzi in the marble bath. Then, through the glass french doors, into your private outdoor garden with its table, four chairs, a settee for composing music or writing the great American novel, a magnificent umbrella for shade and extensive plants including rhododendron.

Heading out your gate for Central Park half a block away, you'll find ponds and lakes, row boats and gondola rentals, tennis courts, ballfields, the Charles Dana Discovery Center, bird watching tours, a running track around the Jackie Kennedy reservoir, the Metropolitan Museum, a zoo, a carousel made in 1908, 56 miles of walking paths, bike routes, swimming pools and various restaurants and theatrical and musical venues; you may just decide you have found elysium. Of course, if you need to rest, you can sit on one of the 10,000 benches or spread a blanket and picnic under one of the 18,000 trees. When sparkling winter comes, there is ice skating, sledding, nordic trekking, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and snowman building. On rainy days, just use your treadmill that is waiting for you in your new condo.

If you have a possible prodigy looking for a musical education, the Manhattan School of Music is nearby as is Columbia University and Barnard. Additionally, the Union Theological Seminary is close as is the magnificent St. John the Divine Cathedral. Walking five minutes north is large Morningside Park which hosts a Farmer's Market on Saturdays. If you want to bike ride along the Hudson, you can peddle to the free Staten Island ferry and put your bike aboard for a gorgeous view of the harbor and the Statue of Liberty. It's just a five minute bike ride from your new condo to get to the Hudson River bike path, along which you can rent canoes, kayaks and sailboats and visit the famed Chelsea Piers where you'll find golf, batting cages, bowling, yoga, a rock climbing wall and a basketball court.

Public transportation is a five minute walk away to both the B train — take the B some Saturday out to Brighton Beach — and the C train, as well as the number 10 bus. They will take you to the American Museum of Natural History and the NY Historical Society nearby, as well as points south. A five minute walk to Broadway will put you on the #1 train to Lincoln Center and all the glorious music — including Lincoln Center Jazz — and plays performed there. If you have a car you can park for free on your block as long as you move it twice a week for street cleaning or there is a parking garage down the block.

Visualize it: you fly in from California or Texas and enter your own private sanctuary in the middle of the greatest city in the world; whether you're looking for a stylish Manhattan retreat or a full-time home, you've found it. No need to buy your own ceramic coated PFA free pots and pans, they are already here.

Price: $1,200,000. Common charges and taxes are ridiculously low at only $1,145 monthly and an additional assessment of $286 through 2027 for the new roof. Other major refurbishments have been completed. There is a bicycle room, storage room, community room and a live-in super. There is a stellar management team, a very responsive board and a friendly community in Manhattan Valley Townhouses (MVT).

Principals Only, Cash Only, Sold As Is.

Call Randy at 646.320.8221 or email [email protected] to schedule a showing.