54th Street

54th andBroadway
Maintained by	City of New York
Length	2.0 mi (3.2 km)
Location	Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
West end	NY 9AWest Side Highway
East end	Sutton Place

54th Street is a two-mile-long (3.2 km),one-way street traveling west to east acrossMidtown Manhattan in New York City.

• The route begins atTwelfth Avenue (New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is theNew York Passenger Ship Terminal and theHudson River. This is the only two-way portion of 54th Street; the remainder (east of Eleventh Avenue) is one-way eastbound.
• De Witt Clinton Park. The West Side neighborhood ofClinton derives its name from the park. (south)

• Clinton Towers Apartments, 39-floor apartment building completed in 1974^[1] (north)
• The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore studios
• AT&T Switching Center at 811 Tenth Avenue, 21-story, 113 m/370 ft switching station completed in 1964^[2] (south)

• Sony Music Studios, 460 West 54th (south)
• The Hit Factory, 421 West 54th (north)

• New York City Transit Rapid Transit Division's Rail Command Control Center, on former site of54th Street Bus Depot andNinth Avenue Railroad barn at 354 West 54th (south)
• Midtown Community Court (south)
• Midtown North precinct ofNew York City Police (south)

• The section between Eighth and Broadway is signedSeñor Wences Way, for the ventriloquist who had appeared onThe Ed Sullivan Show (produced nearby) and who lived in the Ameritania Hotel.
• The Marc, 260 West 54th, 42-floor, 142 m / 464 ft apartment tower on top of municipal garage (south)
• Studio 54 (south)^[3]
• Ameritania Hotel (south)^[4]

• The corner of Broadway and 54th is signed "Big Apple Corner" in honor of writerJohn J. Fitz Gerald who lived there and popularized the phraseBig Apple.
• 1700 Broadway, 42-story, 162 m / 533 ft office tower that is headquarters ofKing World Productions^[5]

• 1325 Avenue of the Americas (north) (actually closer to Seventh Avenue) 35-story 153 m / 502 ft, is the office tower that was portrayed inSeinfeld as Elaine's workplace. It is connected to the Hilton Hotel.^[6] (south)
• Conrad (formerly The London NYC), 54-floor 180m/590ft mixed-use tower; tallest building on West 54th^[7] (north)
• Ziegfeld Theatre (north)
• New York Hilton Hotel, 49-floor, 148 m 487 ft (148 m) hotel completed in 1963. Designed byLapidus, it was originally supposed to resembleMiami Beach's curvedFontainebleau Hotel, but was later changed to resemble the nearbyNew York Sheraton which Lapidus had also designed.^[8] (south)
• 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 50-story, 191 m / 625 ft office tower (north)

• 1330 Sixth Avenue, called "Brown Rock" when it was headquarters of ABC Television (south)
• Financial Times Building, 41-story, 151 m / 496 ft office tower completed in 1965 (south)^[9]
• The Warwick Hotel, 36-story, 111 m / 363 ft hotel completed in 1927 (north)
• Tower Verre, an under-construction 77-story, 320 m / 1,050 ft tower at 53 West 53rd Street^[10] (south)
• Museum of Modern Art (south)
• Museum Tower 52-story588 ft (179 m)Cesar Pelli tower completed in 1985
• Rockefeller Apartments, a New York City landmark
• Residences at 5–15 West 54th Street, a series of townhouses built in the late 1890s. All of these are New York City designated landmarks and collectively form aNational Register of Historic Places district.^[11][12]
  • 13 and 15 West 54th Street occupied byJohn D. Rockefeller Jr. andNelson Rockefeller
  • 9–11 West 54th Street, occupied byJames J. Goodwin andJosephine Goodwin
  • 7 West 54th Street occupied byPhilip Lehman andRobert Lehman
  • 5 West 54th Street, occupied byMoses Allen Starr andAlice Dunning Starr
• 4 West 54th Street, Mansion and Residence ofJohn D. Rockefeller (nowMuseum of Modern Art)
• University Club (north)

• 520 Madison Avenue, 43-story, 176 m / 577 ft office tower with sloping lower walls and a section of theBerlin Wall in its adjoining park^[13] (south)
• William H. Moore House, 4 East 54th Street (south)
• 689 Fifth Avenue (north)
• 19 East 54th Street (north)

• Dillon, Read & Company Building, 36-story 141 m /464 ft building completed in 1982^[14]
• 527 Madison, 26-story, 107 m 351 ft (107 m) building completed in 1986^[15]
• Hotel Elysee (south)

• 399 Park Avenue, headquarter ofCitigroup (south)
• Lever House (south)

• Citigroup Center, tallest building on street (south)

• Lipstick Building (south)
• 909 Third Avenue, 32-floor tower built above the FDR Station (a post office) (north)^[16][17]
  • 40°45′30″N73°58′04″W / 40.758279°N 73.96786°W /40.758279; -73.96786 (909 Third Avenue)

• Neighborhood Playhouse, 340 East 54th Street
• Constance Baker Motley Recreation Center^[18]
• Mondrian Condominiums, 43-story 134 m 439 ft (134 m) apartment complex completed in 1992^[19]

• Rivertower Apartments, 39-floor apartments^[20] (south)
• Saint James' Tower, 30-floor apartments^[21]

• The street ends at acul-de-sac offSutton Place South.

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