Tower 53
159 West 53rd Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $525,000 to $2,750,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 14
  • Apartments for Rent: 9
53rd Street is widely considered one of the city's most impressive sidestreets because it is the site of such major landmarks as the Citicorp Center, the Seagram Building, the Museum of Modern Art, the CBS Building and the New York Hilton Hotel, some of the city's most famous landmarks.

When this mixed-use building was erected in 1968, this stretch of Seventh (read more)

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Executive Plaza
150 West 51st Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $465,000 to $899,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 11
  • Apartments for Rent: 37
This large pre-war building, which occupies the entire east blockfront on Seventh Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets and was formerly the Taft Hotel, was divided into two sections with their own adjacent street entrances.

Executive Plaza is the residential condominium section and it contains 443 apartments and the Michelangelo Hotel is the other section. The property had (read more)

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Carnegie Plaza
162 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $665,000 to $825,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 2
  • Apartments for Rent: 2
Some of the city's streets are interesting for reasons that are not always obvious. This block, for example, has the backs of two major skyscrapers on 57th Street and the City Center for the Performing Arts on 55th Street.

In addition, it has the loading dock of CitySpire, a major mixed-use tower in the middle of the block, (read more)

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Le Premier
112 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $1,385,000 to $1,385,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This midblock apartment tower was erected in 1980 and converted to a condominium in 1983. The 32-story building has 55 units.

The building has a very distinctive and impressive marquee that serves as a covered entrance to the apartment tower on west and the New York Health & Racquet Club facility on the lower floors on the east. The (read more)

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171 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,995,000 to $2,995,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
New York's chaotic patterns of development in midtown have resulted in very few intersections that are stunning architecturally.

This is one of those rare locations. (Another is two long blocks to the east at Fifth Avenue.)

Here this building faces venerable Carnegie Hall and its superb modern tower, designed by Cesar Pelli, directly across 57th Street, the robust brownstone goliath of (read more)

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The Coronet
57 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Condominium
  • Apartment Price Range
    $885,000 to $885,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
This robust, red-brick, 11-story apartment building was erected in 1901 and converted to a condominium in 1976. It has 85 apartments.

One block from Central Park, this building once had a very impressive facade with a two-story rusticated limestone base with an arched, two-story entrance with canopy and a handsome limestone quoins, a handsome, two-story colonnade in the center of (read more)

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200 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $13,000 to $3,899,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 6
  • Apartments for Rent: 3
This 35-story tower is one of the most distinctive in the city with its curved arc corner and continuous bands of balconies in its base.

Built by Bernard Spitzer and Melvin D. Lipman, and designed by Wechsler & Schimenti, this beige-brick tower commands spectacular views of Central Park and the curved facade permits more apartments to have park views.

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The Coliseum Park Apartments
345 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $359,000 to $600,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 5
  • Apartments for Rent: 6
This huge, mid-rise apartment building shares a superblock bounded by Broadway and Ninth Avenue and 58th & 60th Streets with the New York Coliseum. This 14-story, red-brick building occupies the western half of the superblock and the Coliseum the eastern half.

Built in 1956, it was converted to a cooperative in 1984. The 14-story building has 595 units. (read more)

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The Alwyn Court
180 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $985,000 to $2,350,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The city's most ornate building, the Alwyn Court is a classic New York real estate story of riches to rags and back.

When it was completed in 1910, the area around Carnegie Hall had several of the city's most important apartment buildings such as the Osborne on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 57th Street, the Rembrandt, the city's first (read more)

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Rockefeller Apartments
17 West 54th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $674,000 to $1,299,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 4
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
Erected in 1936 on the former site of the townhouse of John D. Rockefeller Sr., this through-block project is notable for its large, curved bay windows and its large garden.

Designed by Wallace K. Harrison, a favorite architect of the Rockefellers, and J. André Fouilhoux, the development achieved a fame that exceeded their relatively modest designs in large part because of (read more)

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24 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $2,995,000 to $4,200,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 3
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, 21-story building was erected as a cooperative apartment building in 1961 and has 37 units.

The white-brick building has an interesting roofline with curved elements. The facade has been substantially altered over the years with the addition of a large "wintergarden" window on the top floor and the enclosure of many its balconies that are flush with the (read more)

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128 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartment Price Range
    $850,000 to $850,000
  • Apartments for Sale: 1
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This handsome, midblock, 16-story, apartment building was erected in 1924 and converted to a cooperative in 1984. It has 56 units.

This block, between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, is the most elegant on Central Park South as it boasts the great Art Deco rooftops of the Trump Parc building on the east end and the (read more)

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The Gainsborough
222 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
The city's best "studio" apartment building, this slender, 16-story building between 7th Avenue and Broadway was completed in 1908, a couple of years after several "studio" buildings were erected on West 67th Street.

The Gainsborough has only 34 apartments, all with spectacular, double-height living rooms facing north towards Central Park.

Designed by Charles W. Buckham, the building was developed by a group (read more)

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210 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Cooperative
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 1
While there are many buildings with unobstructed views of Central Park, few take as much advantage of them as this 23-story apartment tower that was developed by Bernard Spitzer who also built the taller, larger and curved apartment tower that adjoins it to the east.

Although it is overshadowed by many of its taller neighbors along Central Park South, this building (read more)

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220 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 20-story, light-gray brick building was erected in 1954 and was designed by Mayer & Whittesley and M. Milton Glass. It has 124 rental apartments.

Mayer & Whittlesley also designed 40 and 240 Central Park South, which, like 220 Central Park South, are through-block buildings that extend to 58th Street.

In their excellent book, "New York 1960 Architecture and Urbanism Between (read more)

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330 West 56th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very attractive, 23-story, brown-brick apartment tower has 265 rental apartments.

The building is close to Central Park and the new twin-towered, mixed use building on Columbus Circle that includes the headquarters of AOL-Time Warner.

There is excellent cross-town bus service on 57th Street and subways on Eighth Avenue at 57th Street. There is good shopping in this area, which is (read more)

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240 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartment Price Range
    $0 to $6,200
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 13
This impressive and important 28-story, orange-brick building was erected in 1941 and has 321 rental apartments.

It was designed by Mayer & Whittlesley, an architectural firm that also designed the same year the 22-story apartment building at 40 Central Park South that has a similar but even more striking roof. The same architects were also co-designers with M. Milton Glass (read more)

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435 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, gray-brick, 17-story apartment building has 275 rental apartments.

The building has a doorman, discrete air-conditioners, consistent fenestration, a canopied entrance, a garage and a roof deck. It has no sidewalk landscaping and no health club.

It is close to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle.

There is (read more)

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888 Eighth Avenue


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, 11-story, brown-brick apartment building was erected in 1965 and has 383 rental apartments.

The building is close to Central Park and the new twin-towered, mixed use building on Columbus Circle that includes the headquarters of AOL-Time Warner.

There is excellent cross-town bus service on 57th Street and subways on Eighth Avenue at 57th Street. There is good shopping in (read more)

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40 Central Park South


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 22-story, light-gray brick building has a very striking terraced top that culminates in a large, glass-enclosed elevator "house."

It was designed in 1941 by Mayer & Whittlesley, an architectural firm that also the same year designed 240 Central Park South, which features a similar rooftop shape although not glass-enclosed, the same year and was a co-architect with Skidmore, Owings & (read more)

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41 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This 22-story, light-gray brick building has a very striking terraced top that culminates in a large, glass-enclosed elevator "house."

It was designed in 1941 by Mayer & Whittlesley, an architectural firm that also the same year designed 240 Central Park South, which features a similar rooftop shape although not glass-enclosed, the same year and was a co-architect with Skidmore, Owings & (read more)

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330 West 58th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This attractive, yellow- and beige-brick, 20-story apartment building has 360 rental apartments.

The building has a doorman, a concierge, a one-story marble base, a garage, a nice lobby, discrete air-conditioners, and consistent fenestration. It has no sidewalk landscaping, no balconies and no health club.

It is across the street from the twin-towered, mixed-use building on which construction began in (read more)

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The York
488 Seventh Avenue


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 0
This very impressive 12-story building was converted from a commercial building

to a rental apartment building in 1986.

One of the handsomest buildings in the Garment Center, it has a two-story rusticated limestone base with slightly arched windows on the second floor, huge finials atop balconies on the third and fourth floors and several very decorative window surrounds near the top of (read more)

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Hemisphere House
60 West 57th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartment Price Range
    $0 to $5,500
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 14
This handsome, post-war, 20-story building at the northeast corner of Washington Square Park has 242 rental apartments.

The gray-brick building has a very attractive rooftop water-tank enclosure and a very impressive entrance with curved mosaic walls and white marble. It has a one-story polished black granite base that extends to the second floor above the canopied entrance. The building (read more)

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La Premiere
230 West 55th Street


  • Location
    Upper West Side / Midtown West
  • Type Rental
  • Apartment Price Range
    $0 to $3,995
  • Apartments for Sale: 0
  • Apartments for Rent: 13
This attractive, 31-story tower was erected in 1979 and has 230 rental apartments.

The beige-brick tower has extensive sidewalk landscaping and its double-height, windowed lobby faces its mid-block plaza. The building is free-standing except for its south façade along Broadway where it adjoins a two-story retail building.

This building is directly across 55th Street from the Park Imperial mixed-use tower that (read more)

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