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57th Street in Manhattan

Saturday, 27 June 2026 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika
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🔊 Listen to this Post 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 passes through the Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of Sutton Place, Billionaire’s Row, and Hell’s Kitchen from east to west.

57th Street was created according to the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 and was developed as a mainly residential street in the mid-19th century. The central portion of 57th Street was developed as an artistic hub starting in the 1890s, with the development of Carnegie Hall. The section between Fifth and Eighth Avenues is two blocks south of Central Park. Since the early 21st century, the portion of the street south of Central Park has formed part of Billionaires’ Row, which contains luxury residential skyscrapers such as 111 West 57th Street, One57, and the Central Park Tower.

Starting in the 2010s, several very tall ultra-luxury residential buildings have been constructed or proposed on the stretch of West 57th Street between Eighth and Park Avenues, which is largely within two blocks of Central Park. The first of these was One57, a 1,004-foot (306 m) apartment building between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, which was completed in 2014. Due to the often record-breaking prices that have been set for the apartments in these buildings, the press has dubbed this section of 57th Street as “Billionaires’ Row”. These projects have generated controversy concerning the economic conditions and zoning policies that have encouraged these buildings, as well as the impact these towers will have on the surrounding neighborhoods and the shadows they will cast on Central Park.

Over its two-mile (3 km) length, 57th Street passes through several distinct neighborhoods with differing mixes of commercial, retail, and residential uses. 57th Street is notable for prestigious art galleries, restaurants and up-market shops.

The first block of 57th Street, at its western end at Twelfth Avenue near the Hudson River waterfront, is home to the VIA 57 West building, designed in the form of a triangular pyramid by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. From there to Tenth Avenue are low-rise industrial properties, several automobile dealerships, and small-scale residential buildings. Much of the south side of the block between Eleventh and Tenth Avenues is occupied by the CBS Broadcast Center, which is the network’s primary East Coast production facility. The street’s name was used by CBS to title a newsmagazine program produced by the network in the late 1980s, West 57th.

From Tenth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, larger residential buildings appear. Beginning at Eighth Avenue and continuing east through the core of Midtown Manhattan, the street is dominated by very large commercial and residential towers, such as at the Hearst Tower at the southwest corner of 57th Street and Eighth Avenue. This stretch of 57th Street is home to several large hotels such as Le Parker Meridien and well-known restaurants such as the Russian Tea Room (both between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue), and to the offices of several magazines including The Economist. The corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue is home to the city-owned performance venue Carnegie Hall.

The mid-block between Seventh and Sixth Avenues is a terminus of a north-south pedestrian avenue named Sixth and a Half Avenue.

East of Sixth Avenue, the street is home to numerous high-end retail establishments including the Tiffany & Co. flagship store and the Bergdorf Goodman Building. The stores located at 57th Street’s intersections with Fifth and Madison Avenues occupy some of the most expensive real estate in the world.

Commercial and retail buildings continue to dominate until Third Avenue, where the street rapidly returns to a preponderance of large residential buildings. As it continues from here through its final blocks leading to its terminus at Sutton Place, the street consists of a nearly unbroken stretch of increasingly upscale apartment buildings with doormen, awnings, and small commercial establishments such as drug stores, bank branches, and restaurants.

57th Street ends at a small city park overlooking the East River just east of Sutton Place.

Among the notable places are:

• 303 East 57th Street. At one point the “largest residential building in New York City”, 47 floors.
• 300 East 57th Street
• 135 East 57th Street
• The Galleria, 115 East 57th Street. Eric Clapton‘s son fell from the building back in 1991.
• Ritz Tower, NE corner of Park Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• Four Seasons Hotel New York, 57 East 57th Street
• Fuller Building, NE corner of Madison Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• 590 Madison Avenue
• LVMH Tower
• L. P. Hollander Company Building, 3 East 57th Street, a New York City designated landmark
• Bergdorf Goodman Building, NW corner of Fifth Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• Formerly: site of Theodore Roosevelt‘s home in the 1870s and 1880s, 6 West 57th Street
• Solow Building, 9 West 57th Street
• Formerly: Sherwood Studios Building, SE corner of Sixth Avenue
• The Quin
• 111 West 57th Street, a residential tower; incorporating the former Steinway Hall, a New York City designated landmark
• Le Parker Meridien
• 130 West 57th Street, a New York City designated landmark
• 140 West 57th Street, a New York City designated landmark
• Metropolitan Tower, 142 West 57th Street
• Russian Tea Room, 148 West 57th Street
• Carnegie Hall Tower, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues
• One57, 157 West 57th Street
• 165 West 57th Street, campus of the IESE Business School, a New York City designated landmark
• , SE corner Seventh Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• The Briarcliffe, a former hotel at 171 West 57th Street
• Osborne Apartments, NW corner of Seventh Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• Rodin Studios, SW corner of Seventh Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• 215 West 57th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, headquarters of the Art Students League of New York, a New York City designated landmark
• 220 West 57th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, a New York City designated landmark
• 224 West 57th Street, SE corner of Broadway, a New York City designated landmark
• Central Park Tower, 225 West 57th Street
• Hearst Tower, SW corner of Eighth Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• Windermere Apartments, SW corner of Ninth Avenue, a New York City designated landmark
• Catholic Apostolic Church, 417 West 57th Street, a New York City designated landmark
• CBS Broadcast Center, from Tenth to Eleventh Avenues
• VIA 57 West, 625 West 57th Street

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