page_title: Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
section_title: Central Park West
hierarchical_section_title: Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) / Description / Central Park West
caption_attribution_description: Summary en:Housing cooperatives on en:Central Park West in en:Manhattan en:NYC. en:The San Remo on the right, en:The Dakota left from center. Photograph by Leena Hietanen March 2005. (Uploaded with permission.)
context_page_description: Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. While the avenue has different names at different points in Manhattan, it is actually one continuous stretch of road.
context_section_description: North of Columbus Circle, the roadway becomes Central Park West (abbreviated to CPW). Unlike many Manhattan avenues, CPW has traffic running in two directions, and its address numbering system is different than that of the rest of Eighth Avenue. As its name indicates, CPW forms the western edge of Central Park. It also forms the eastern boundary of the Upper West Side. It runs 51 blocks from Columbus Circle (at 59th Street, or Central Park South) to Frederick Douglass Circle (at 110th Street, or Cathedral Parkway). The gates into Central Park along its western edge are: Merchants Gate at 59th Street, Women's Gate at 72nd, Naturalists Gate at 77th, Hunters Gate at 81st, Mariners Gate at 85th, Gate of All Saints at 96th, Boys Gate at 100th, and Strangers Gate at 106th. Central Park West's expensive housing rivals that of Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side.
  Several famous residences are located on Central Park West, including:
  The Dakota, where John Lennon lived with current resident Yoko Ono, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980
  The San Remo, home to Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, and U2's Bono
  The Eldorado
  The Beresford, home to Jerry Seinfeld and Diana Ross
  The Langham
  The Century
  15 Central Park West, home to Sting, Alex Rodriguez and Ekaterina Rybolovleva
  41 Central Park West, home to Madonna
  455 Central Park West
  The St. Urban
  The Majestic, home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. In 1957, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante shot Frank Costello in the lobby of The Majestic in a failed assassination attempt
  According to The New York Times's architecture critic Paul Goldberger, the street's buildings, both the new ones like 15 Central Park West and the old ones such as The Century, "fit together the same way the ones in that hypothetical Main Street do, and for the same reason.  For more than a hundred years, their architects honor the unspoken agreement to work together, to line their buildings up with each other and to work in a consistent scale with materials that are compatible."
  Most of these housing cooperatives were built around 1930, replacing late-19th century hotels with the same names.  Some, including The Century, The San Remo, and The Majestic, are twin towers. Other landmarks and institutions along its length include the New-York Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History. The area from 61st to 97th Streets is included in the Central Park West Historic District.
  The building located at 55 Central Park West is the infamous "Spook Central" from the movie Ghostbusters. The famed New York City restaurant Tavern on the Green is located off Central Park West, at 66th Street, within the grounds of Central Park.
  In 1899, while exiting a streetcar, Henry Bliss was run over by a taxi at CPW and West 74th Street, becoming the first person to be run down and killed by a motor car in the Americas.
caption: Housing cooperatives on CPW. The San Remo on the right, The Langham right from center, The Dakota left from center, and The Majestic on the far left.
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