230 Central Park South, Manhattan

Prewar Central Park South co-op directly at the park's edge, where the street level runs on high-intensity tourist energy.

Built in 1938, this 75-unit prewar building sits directly on the southern border of Central Park. While the cooperative holds zero open municipal housing violations, selecting an apartment here requires weighing park proximity against the high energy of one of Manhattan's main tourist and transit gateways. Three things to know:

High food-service activity on the surrounding blocks regularly drifts into the local air. Within three blocks, there were 38 food establishment complaints and 5 indoor air quality reports over the last year. On dense commercial blocks, restaurant exhaust and kitchen odors frequently funnel upward through shared shafts or vent directly near lower-floor windows, which can be an unexpected headache depending on which way your windows face.

Street-level congestion is a constant, churning mix of drop-offs and carriage activity. Being steps from the park means sharing the immediate block face with endless vehicle queues. Over the last 12 months, the three-block radius saw 159 illegal parking complaints, 77 for-hire vehicle disputes, and 67 taxi complaints. The building itself even logged a consumer complaint about a horse-drawn cab on September 9, 2025.

High-end unit combinations dominate the building's recent alterations. Rather than major utility overhauls, the recent municipal filings center on combining and customizing layouts, with permits details structural alterations and mechanical layouts to merge units on the 18th floor. Localized renovation noise is a common prewar occurrence as individual apartments are modernized.

Quieter signals on this building and the blocks around it:

• A single resident lead kit request was logged from the building on June 19, 2026, a standard prewar safety self-test.
• The surrounding blocks handle high public density, with 222 homeless assistance calls and 28 encampment reports within three blocks last year.
• The cooperative sits out of the municipal violation records entirely, showing prompt handling of building maintenance issues.
• On Central Park South, you are buying the park-front perspective, which means managing the bustling parade outside your door.

230 Central Park South is a 75-unit building in Manhattan, New York City (BBL 1010300048). This building is associated with 230 Park South Apartments, INC. Brix tracks 0 open HPD violations for this property, along with inspection history, DOB filings, tenant complaints, and rent stabilization status.

Built in 1938, this elevator apartment building sits in Manhattan and is tracked by Brix using public NYC records from HPD, DOB, ACRIS, and 311.

Tenants have filed 1 HPD complaint about this building over the last five years, most often about plumbing.

The DOB has logged 4 permit filings on this building in the last 24 months.

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

• Plumbing: 1 complaint

The most recent complaint on this building was filed May 1, 2025.

The building last changed hands on December 4, 2025 for $2,250,000, according to recorded deeds.

Brix rating: Clean (81/100). View the Building Report on Brix.

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