The Park Imperial
230 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019
Theater District
BBL 1010277504 · BIN 1086135
- Year built
- 2002
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $2,000
- Listing discount
- 5.1%
- Recorded sales
- 139
- On record
- 2003–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Park Imperial would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
Most Midtown towers put their apartments where you would expect them. The Park Imperial does the opposite: its condominium residences begin dozens of floors up, lifted above a commercial base so that the homes start where other buildings' penthouses end. The effect is a building of views — uninterrupted panoramas of Central Park, the Hudson River, and the Midtown skyline — sold not as an amenity but as the entire premise.
Completed in 2002 to a design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the building is a slender shaft of gray glass and polished granite two blocks south of Columbus Circle. SOM is the firm behind a century of New York's most consequential towers, and here it produced a restrained, vertical object engineered around a single idea: get the residences as high as possible, then wrap them in glass. Adam Tihany's interiors gave the arrival sequence and common spaces a hospitality-grade polish unusual for the era.
For buyers, the appeal is direct. This is a condominium — with the financing latitude, ownership flexibility, and resale liquidity that ownership structure provides — set in one of the most connected corners of Manhattan, where Central Park, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Columbus Circle transit hub are all within a short walk. The Park Imperial trades on altitude and address in equal measure.
Architecture and unit composition
SOM's tower reads as a single clean gesture from the street: floor-to-ceiling glass over a granite frame, with the residential floors set high enough that the apartments enjoy light and outlook on multiple exposures. The 107 residences range from one-bedrooms to full-floor and near-full-floor homes of five and six bedrooms, the largest of which command sweeping double and triple exposures.
Interiors carry the building's signature 10-foot ceilings, oversized windows, and a finish program that leaned toward the contemporary-luxury register of its moment — wide-plank dark floors, marble baths, and open, view-oriented living layouts. Because the homes sit so high in the structure, even mid-tier units capture the kind of skyline and park views that elsewhere are reserved for the top of a building. The full-floor residences, with private elevator-landing arrival, are the building's trophy inventory.
Building operations
The Park Imperial runs as a full-service condominium. A 24-hour doorman and concierge staff the residential lobby, with a fitness center and residents' lounge among the shared spaces, and the building's sky-lobby arrival is part of the experience of living here. As a condominium, purchases clear through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board admissions process, and financing, pied-à-terre ownership, and investment purchases are accommodated in the manner customary to luxury condominiums of this caliber. The building's location — steps from the A/B/C/D/1 trains at Columbus Circle and the N/Q/R/W at 57th Street — makes it one of the better-connected luxury addresses in Midtown.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2010–15 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2026 | 57C | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,002 sf | $3,805,000 | $1,901/sf | -2.3% |
| Oct 29, 2025 | 55D | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 812 sf | $1,855,000 | $2,284/sf | -7.0% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | 61D | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,477 sf | $3,300,000 | $2,234/sf | +6.5% |
| Jun 18, 2025 | PH1A | 2 BR · 3 BA · 1,987 sf | $5,725,000 | $2,881/sf | -17.0% |
| Feb 7, 2025 | 65B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,856 sf | $3,600,000 | $1,940/sf | -5.1% |
| Nov 27, 2024 | 68C | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,550 sf | $3,000,000 | $1,935/sf | -21.1% |
| Nov 22, 2024 | 50B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,319 sf | $2,300,000 | $1,744/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 25, 2024 | 56F | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,477 sf | $3,050,000 | $2,065/sf | -7.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $2,000/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01027-7504) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
The Park Imperial is a view-first purchase, and the views are real and protected by the building's height — the central reason to buy here rather than at a lower Midtown condominium. As a condominium, it offers financing flexibility and ownership latitude that the co-ops of the broader neighborhood cannot match, and the right-of-first-refusal closing path is faster and lighter than a co-op board process.
Buyers should weight floor and exposure heavily; the spread between a north-facing park view and a lower-floor side exposure is the difference that defines value in this building. The mixed-use structure means residents share the address with a commercial base, but the residential entrance, lobby, and services are dedicated. For purchasers who want altitude, glass, and a Columbus Circle address with the flexibility of condominium ownership, the building's case is straightforward.
What to know if you’re selling
The view is the listing. A Park Imperial resale lives or dies on capturing the outlook — the Central Park, Hudson, and skyline panoramas that the building's height delivers — and positioning the home against the newer supertall condominiums of the 57th Street corridor as well as the established towers nearby. The SOM pedigree, the high-floor altitude, and the Columbus Circle location are durable differentiators worth foregrounding.
Condominium closing mechanics work in a seller's favor: a resale clears through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board, a faster and more predictable path that appeals to the financing- and flexibility-minded buyer this building attracts. With just over 100 units, available inventory is typically thin, and a well-presented high-floor home benefits from limited comparable supply.
Comparable buildings
If you're weighing the Park Imperial, the relevant set is Midtown's view-driven and amenity-rich towers:
- 146 West 57th Street — Midtown tower a block away
- 150 West 56th Street — full-service Midtown West building
- 205 West 54th Street — Midtown West residential tower
- 322 West 57th Street — large-format Midtown West condominium
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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