165 West 57th Street, originally the Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing headquarters, is a building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is along the northern sidewalk of 57th Street between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. The five-story building was designed by George A. and Henry Boehm for dance instructor Louis H. Chalif. It was designed as an event space, a school, and Chalif's apartment.
Seen in 2011 with a banner for IESE Business School on the scaffolding
Chalif's school on 165 West 57th Street, seen in 2020
Floor plans
Entrance foyer
57th Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan, one of the major two-way, east-west streets in the borough's grid. As with Manhattan's other "crosstown" streets, it is divided into its east and west sections at Fifth Avenue. The street runs from a small park overlooking the East River in the east to the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in the west. 57th Street runs through the neighborhoods of Sutton Place, Midtown Manhattan, and Hell's Kitchen from east to west.
Apartment buildings lining East 57th Street between First Avenue and Sutton Place
The Hearst Tower at 300 West 57th Street
Art Students League at 215 West 57th Street
Calvary Baptist Church entrance at 123 West 57th Street