CENTRAL PARK WEST

485 Central Park West
One-bedroom co-op
Square footage: 600
Asking price: $385,000
Selling price: $375,000
Time on market: 4 months

THE FLOWER MAN A one-bedroom apartment between 108th and 109th streets — which a swanky Brazilian TV show featured four times on a segment about what money buys in Gotham — was snapped up by horticulturist Charles Yurgalevitch. Mr. Yurgalevitch isn’t just any horticulturist; he’s the director of the school of professional horticulture at the New York Botanical Gardens, and he’s agreed to create a roof garden for his new home, broker Mitzie Chu of the Corcoran Group, said. The beneficiary of Mr. Yurgalevitch’s extreme horticulture makeover is one of the last pre-war apartment buildings located in Central Park West before the triple-digit street numbers become Harlem. His new apartment, with a part-time doorman, has oblique views of Central Park and a subway is nearby. It seems the former owner decided to sell the apartment and move into more spacious quarters for the same reason she switched careers from solitary research scientist to patent lawyer: She loves being with people, Ms. Chu said. Apartment 6C wasn’t big enough to entertain the number of guests she likes to cook large sit-down dinners for, so she moved into a larger apartment in the same building. Soon, she’ll have a garden too.

UPPER WEST SIDE

240 Riverside Blvd.
Four-bedroom condo
Square footage: 2,900
Asking price: $4.95 million
Selling price: $5 million
Time on market: 7 months

NOT ENOUGH? The median New York City income can barely purchase a closet-size apartment in Manhattan, but one foreign investor who bought this four-bedroom decided that, at 2,900 square feet, this apartment just wasn’t big enough. He hadn’t lived in it yet, and he resold it. “He needed more space,” Gilad Azaria of the Bracha Group of Prudential Douglas Elliman explained. The new buyers, a physician and musician couple, moved from an Upper West Side brownstone. One of the reasons they decided to relocate, Mr. Azaria said, is that their brownstone didn’t have amenities — 24-hour doorman and concierge service, party and conference rooms, a spa, sauna, steam room, two pools (one for lap swimming and another to dip), a gym, an aerobic room, a movie room, along with that rarity in city real estate, a private garage. Oh, and if these weren’t different enough from the brownstone, the apartment provides views of the water, the park, and legendary skyscrapers.

TURTLE BAY

310 E. 46th St.
Two-bedroom condop
Square footage: 1,433
Asking price: $949,000
Selling price: $925,000
Time on market: 180 days

THAT SOHO FEELING Many of the apartments in this converted 1929 printing house have 14-foot ceilings that give the apartments what Corcoran broker Howard Spiegelman calls a SoHo feel, making them seem a lot larger than their technical square footage. “You get the feel of a much bigger place,” he said. But most of the apartments in 310 E. 46th St. — a building that mixes co-op ownership with looser condominium rules — are half the size of the one a recent college grad from the North Shore of Long Island who works in mortgages bought, with help from his parents. Steeped in white marble, the apartment has a galley kitchen with stainless steel appliances, frosted glass, a Jacuzzi tub, and, Mr. Spieglman said, a lobby that looks like something that belongs in MoMa. “It’s perfect,” he said.