54th Street is a two-mile-long (3.2 km), one-way street traveling west to east across

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in New York City.

Notable places, west to east

Twelfth Avenue

*The route begins at Twelfth Avenue ( New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is the

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and the

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. This is the only two-way portion of 54th Street; the remainder (east of Eleventh Avenue) is one-way eastbound. *

De Witt Clinton Park DeWitt Clinton Park is a New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, between West 52nd and 54th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. The park, which was one of the first New York City par ...

. The West Side neighborhood of Clinton derives its name from the park. (south)

Eleventh Avenue

*Clinton Towers Apartments, 39-floor apartment building completed in 1974 (north) *''

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'' studios *AT&T Switching Center at 811 Tenth Avenue, 21-story, 113 m/370 ft switching station completed in 1964 (south)

Tenth Avenue

Sony Music Studios Sony Music Studios was an American music recording and mastering facility in New York City. The five-story building was a music and broadcasting complex located at 460 W. 54th Street, at 10th Avenue, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhat ...

, 460 West 54th (south) *

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, 421 West 54th (north)

Ninth Avenue

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Rapid Transit Division's Rail Command Control Center, on former site of 54th Street Bus Depot and Ninth Avenue Railroad barn at 354 West 54th (south) *

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(south) *Midtown North precinct of

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(south)

Eighth Avenue

*The section between Eighth and Broadway is signed

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Way, for the ventriloquist who had appeared on ''

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'' (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 Studio 54 is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater and former nightclub at 254 West 54th Street (Manhattan), 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Opened as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, it served ...

(south) *Ameritania Hotel (south)

Broadway

*The corner of Broadway and 54th is signed "Big Apple Corner" in honor of writer

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who lived there and popularized the phrase

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. *1700 Broadway, 42-story, 162 m / 533 ft office tower that is headquarters of

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Seventh Avenue

*1325 Avenue of the Americas (north) (actually closer to Seventh Avenue) 35-story 153 m / 502 ft, is the office tower that was portrayed in ''

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'' as Elaine's workplace. It is connected to the Hilton Hotel. (south) *

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(formerly The London NYC), 54-floor 180m/590ft mixed-use tower; tallest building on West 54th (north) * Ziegfeld Theatre (north) * New York Hilton Hotel, 49-floor, 148 m hotel completed in 1963. Designed by Lapidus, it was originally supposed to resemble

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's curved

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, but was later changed to resemble the nearby New York Sheraton which Lapidus had also designed. (south) *

1345 Avenue of the Americas 1345 Avenue of the Americas (also known as the AllianceBernstein Building and formerly the Burlington House) is a -tall, 50-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Located on Sixth Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets, the buildi ...

, 50-story, 191 m / 625 ft office tower (north)

Sixth Avenue

*1330 Sixth Avenue, called "Brown Rock" when it was headquarters of ABC Television (south) *''

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'' Building, 41-story, 151 m / 496 ft office tower completed in 1965 (south) * 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 (south) *

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

(south) *Museum Tower 52-story

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tower completed in 1985 *

Rockefeller Apartments The Rockefeller Apartments is a residential building at 17 West 54th Street (Manhattan), 54th Street and 24 West 55th Street (Manhattan), 55th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Wallace Harrison and J. An ...

, 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 a

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district. ** 13 and 15 West 54th Street occupied by

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and

Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich "Rocky" Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. He was also the 49th governor of New York, serving from 1959 to 197 ...

** 9–11 West 54th Street, occupied by James J. Goodwin and Josephine Goodwin **

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occupied by

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and

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** 5 West 54th Street, occupied by Moses Allen Starr and Alice Dunning Starr *4 West 54th Street, Mansion and Residence of

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(now

) * University Club (north)

Fifth Avenue

*520 Madison Avenue, 43-story, 176 m / 577 ft office tower with sloping lower walls and a section of the

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in its adjoining park (south) * William H. Moore House, 4 East 54th Street (south) *

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(north) * 19 East 54th Street (north)

Madison Avenue

* Dillon, Read & Company Building, 36-story 141 m /464 ft building completed in 1982 *527 Madison, 26-story, 107 m building completed in 1986 * Hotel Elysee (south)

Park Avenue

399 Park Avenue 399 Park Avenue is a 41-story office building that occupies the entire block between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street and 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was the world headquarters of Citigroup from ...

, headquarter of

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(south) *

Lever House Lever House is a office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed from 1950 to 1952, the building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merr ...

(south)

Lexington Avenue

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, tallest building on street (south)

Third Avenue

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(south) *909 Third Avenue, 32-floor tower built above the FDR Station (a post office) (north) **

Second Avenue

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, 340 East 54th Street * East 54th Recreation Center * Mondrian Condominiums, 43-story 134 m apartment complex completed in 1992

First Avenue

*Rivertower Apartments, 39-floor apartments (south) *Saint James' Tower, 30-floor apartments

Sutton Place South

*The street ends at a

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off Sutton Place South.

References

External links

54th Street: A New York Songline
- virtual walking tour {{Authority control 054 Midtown Manhattan