The El Dorado is a cooperative apartment building at 300 Central Park West, between 90th and 91st Streets adjacent to Central Park, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed from 1929 to 1931 and was designed by architect of record Margon & Holder and consulting architect Emery Roth in the Art Deco style. The El Dorado consists of twin 12-story towers rising from a 17-story base. The building is a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places–listed district, and is a New York City designated landmark.
The El Dorado
The El Dorado as seen across Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park
Lower stories of the main elevation on Central Park West
Windows in the outermost, second-outermost and third-outermost sections from left to right
Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. It is one of the original avenues of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 to run the length of Manhattan, though today the name changes twice: At 59th Street/Columbus Circle, it becomes Central Park West, where it forms the western boundary of Central Park, and north of 110th Street/Frederick Douglass Circle, it is known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard before merging onto Harlem River Drive north of 155th Street.
Facing north on Eighth Avenue from 32nd Street
Hearst Tower at West 57th Street and Eighth Avenue
The American Museum of Natural History at 200 Central Park West
Housing cooperatives on Central Park West: The San Remo (far right), The Langham (center-right), The Dakota (center-left), and The Majestic (far left)