Right to Left:
(-Central Park Place condominium building (1988) 301 West 57th Street.)
---220 Central Park South residential skyscraper
---Central Park Tower (Construction) (Nordstrom Tower) 217 West 57th Street.This new architectural landmark will rise 1,550 feet (472 m) above New York City, establishing it as the tallest residential building in the world.
-JW Marriott Essex House (1931) 160 Central Park South, (The hotel is located on part of the expansive site of Francisco de Navarro's "Navarro Flats", built in the 1880s as an experiment in condominium apartments. Construction began on October 30, 1929, one day after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The hotel was first intended to be named the Park Tower and then the Sevilla Tower. However the Great Depression slowed construction and the hotel did not open until October 1, 1931, as the Essex House). On the left:
-Hampshire House 150 Central Park South (The site of Hampshire House was originally the site of an eight-building housing cooperative complex called Navarro Flats, which was built from 1882 to 1884 However Navarro Flats was not successful, closed by the 1920s, Hampshire House was first planned at the site in 1926, Construction of the $6 million Hampshire House was delayed until January 1931, the structure was done by July 1931. but the building's developers ran out of money and the interior design and roof was not completed The building opened in fall 1937 as a rental building.)
- (Middle Glass Building) One 57 Residential condominiums and hotel (2014) 157 West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues formerly known as One 57 and nicknamed The Billionaire Building.
-(Black Building) Metropolitan Tower Condominium (1987) 146 West 57th Street, residential skyscraper
-(Round Rofftop) CitySpire Center (1987) at 150-156 West 56th Street south side of West 56th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue
---11 West 57th Street also known as The Steinway Tower. (Construction) One of the tallest buildings in the United States(1,428 ft (435 m)) , as well as the thinnest skyscraper in the world with a width-to-height ratio of about 1:23 or 1:24.
Central Park view June 2019.
