Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street, along Billionaires' Row, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises 1,550 feet (472.4 m) with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136. Central Park Tower is the second-tallest building in New York City, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere; the 15th tallest building in the world; the tallest primarily residential building in the world; and the tallest building outside Asia by roof height.
Central Park Tower in April 2021
Cantilever over the American Fine Arts Society, headquarters of the Art Students League of New York
Main facade as seen in 2019
The facade of 1780 Broadway (center), a New York City designated landmark preserved at Central Park Tower's base
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