If You Love Somebody Set Them Up In A Staff Apartment For Free

The good news is you get your own apartment on Central Park West. The bad news is you’re wrapped around Sting’s finger:

Manhattan’s most expensive new condo building, 15 Central Park West, is one of only three in the city offering separate apartments tenants can purchase for their maids, butlers and other domestic workers.

Among those who already signed up for the new building are Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein, former Citigroup Chairman Sanford Weill, rock star Sting, NASCAR superstar Jeff Gordon, sportscaster Bob Costas and Oscar-winner Denzel Washington.

It’s not clear whether any of them also bought staff apartments.

“The help need their privacy, too,” developer Arthur Zeckendorf said. “They can still watch their own TV, have their own life.”

And the owners benefit, he said, noting, “If you have someone working for you full time, you still want your privacy.”

One broker said noisy billionaires who buy in won’t risk losing staffers who value their sleep.

“If Sting wants to practice his guitar riffs in the middle of the night, he’s not offending anyone other than his family, and maybe a neighbor or two,” the broker said.

The staff apartments are on floors six through eight.

The higher floors with the lofty views are reserved for the billionaires and boldface names who employ the butlers and maids living below them.

The 24 staff apartments, studios and one-bedroom units that have already been sold range from $875,000 to $2.24 million.