300 West 20th Street, Manhattan

Chelsea mixed-use condo where massive institutional and retail spaces trade alongside residential life.

This Chelsea condo sits at the corner of West 20th Street and Eighth Avenue. While individual apartments rarely trade, the building's massive institutional and retail tax lots have seen major moves, including a $30 million transaction in 2024 when The New School sold its space. Three things to know:

Massive institutional and commercial spaces shape the building's real estate math. A single tax lot within the condo declaration sold for $30 million in July 2024, when The New School transferred its space, which was then traded again in February 2025 for over $21.6 million. When retail or institutional spaces of this scale shift, it can completely change the ground-floor presence, building traffic, and common-charge negotiations.

A high volume of street-level encampment reports close by. Over the last year, 174 encampment complaints were logged within three blocks of the building, a dense footprint when weighed against the 48,245 calls across the entire city. The most recent report came in on July 14, 2026. This street-level activity concentrates heavily around the Eighth Avenue commercial corridor.

An unusually high volume of non-emergency police calls to the address. The building itself has been the subject of 235 non-emergency police complaints, mostly categorized under 'other' details in the logs. While these are closed, the sheer volume of calls pointing directly to this address over the years is unusual for a residential condo and typically points to a specific ongoing issue in or directly outside the ground-floor commercial spaces.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• 96 requests for homeless assistance within three blocks over the last year, most recently on August 2, 2026.
• 77 commercial noise complaints within three blocks over the last year, running up to July 20, 2026.
• Two heat and hot water complaints were logged at the building in early 2026, though both are closed.
• Eighth Avenue brings steady pedestrian traffic and service calls right to the corner, but the building’s residential footprint stays mostly insulated from code violations.

300 West 20th Street is a 0-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1007437501). Brix does not yet have a current violation read for this property (not enough recent data), along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 2003, this condominium sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 7 HPD complaints about this building over the last five years, most often about heat/hot water.

What tenants have called the city about here over the last five years:

• Heat/hot Water: 3 complaints
• Water Leak: 2 complaints
• Paint/plaster: 2 complaints

The most recent complaint on this building was filed February 17, 2026.

The building last changed hands on February 7, 2025 for $21,607,596.78, according to recorded deeds.

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