110th Street is a street in theNew York City borough ofManhattan. It is also known asCentral Park North. In the west, betweenCentral Park West/Frederick Douglass Boulevard andRiverside Drive, it is also known asCathedral Parkway.
110th Street is an eastbound street betweenFirst Avenue andMadison Avenue. The small portion between Madison Avenue andFifth Avenue is westbound. West of Fifth Avenue, the road widens to accommodate two-way traffic.
TheDuke Ellington Memorial, a statue ofDuke Ellington, stands inDuke Ellington Circle, a shallow amphitheater at 110th Street andFifth Avenue, at the northeast corner ofCentral Park. Unveiled in 1997, the statue, by sculptorRobert Graham, is 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, and depicts the Muses—nine nudecaryatids—supporting a grand piano and Duke Ellington on their heads.[1] Duke Ellington Circle is also the site of the futureMuseum for African Art.
110th Street crossesCentral Park West andFrederick Douglass Boulevard at the northwest corner of Central Park,Frederick Douglass Circle. West of there it is also calledCathedral Parkway after theCathedral of St. John the Divine.[2]
The Parkway forms the south edge ofMorningside Park betweenManhattan Avenue andMorningside Drive.[3] It forms the south edge of theCathedral Close of St. John the Divine between Morningside Drive andAmsterdam Avenue, and ends atRiverside Drive beforeRiverside Park.
Central Park North is a section of West 110th Street. As the name implies, it lies at the northern end of Central Park. It is bounded byCentral Park West on the west andFifth Avenue on the east. It is notable for its incongruities; theLincoln Correctional Facility—originally constructed in 1914 for theYoung Women's Hebrew Association—stands a few blocks away from new luxury condo developments.
The Central Park North section has three of the original gates of Central Park. Farmers Gate is located at the southern end ofLenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard, while Warriors Gate is located at the southern end ofSeventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard. Pioneers Gate is at Fifth Avenue (Duke Ellington Circle).
The originalPolo Grounds was located along West 110th Street / Central Park North, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Originally hosting polo, it was the home for theNew York Metropolitans baseball club from 1880 to 1886 and for theNew York Gothams—subsequently the Giants—from 1883 to 1888.
In the first decade of the 21st century, there was significantreal estate development on properties with a view ofCentral Park. In 2003, Manhattan-based developer Athena headed byLouis Dubin bought a property on this street.[4][5] The building was pitched as "an opportunity for New Yorkers to be on thepark at roughly half the price ofCentral Park South."[6] The rebirth of Harlem along Central Park north had attracted celebrities such asMarcia Gay Harden,Maya Angelou, andKareem Abdul-Jabbar.[7] The finished building was 20 stories tall with 48 residential units, 9,500 of ground floor retail space, 48 parking spaces, and each unit had a view of Central Park.[8]
The elevatedIRT Ninth Avenue Line used to reach a great height at its110th Street station, before its demolition in 1940; it was infamous as a suicide location.[9][10] Today, there are fourNew York City Subway stations on 110th Street:
110th Street is served by the followingNew York City Bus routes, all heading west from Madison Avenue or east until Fifth Avenue:
Additional service is provided by the downtownM11, running east from Amsterdam to Columbus Avenues.[11]
TheNew York Central Railroad's110th Street station previously existed onPark Avenue, which now carries thePark Avenue main line of theMetro-North Railroad. The station opened in 1876[12][13] and closed in 1906.[14]
West 110th Street is the southern boundary of the area whereboro cabs may be hailed by passengers.[15]
George Gershwin lived in 501 West 110th Street, on the northwest corner of 110th and Amsterdam, where he composed his seminal pieceRhapsody in Blue. He and his brother Ira lived there from 1924 to 1929.[16]Arthur Miller lived in 45 West 110th Street as a child.[17]
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A decade ago, however, the area had a reputation as one of the most dangerous and economically depressed in the city, Louis Dubin, the CEO of the developer of 111 Central Park North, the Athena Group, said.
Principals: Louis Dubin, president, CEO; Lee Saltzman, COO; Barry Seidel, executive vice president.
The Post has learned that luxury condominium builder, The Athena Group, has bought three property parcels at the northwest corner of Central Park North and Lenox Ave.
'We call it Upper Manhattan,' says developer Louis Dubin of the Athena Group. Dubin recently bought the shopping center at the corner of Central Park North and Lenox Avenue, and hopes—pending a construction-hardship variance—to build seventeen stories of condos there selling for $450,000 to $2 million.
'Approximately 30% of the units have been presold, including a complete floor of 5,200 square feet, for $6.6 million, or approximately $1,200 per square foot,' the president of the Athena Group, Louis Dubin, told my class at the New York University Real Estate Institute last week.
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