55th Street (Manhattan).html



55th Street (One way from east to west)
Maintained by New York City
Length:	2.0 mi (3 km)
East end:	Cul-de-sac east of Sutton Place South
West end:	NY 9A West Side Highway
Counties:	New York
Major cities:	New York City

55th Street is a two-mile-long, one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.

East to West

East 55th Street

Sutton Place South

• The route officially begins at Sutton Place South which is on a hill overlooking FDR Drive.
• Plaza 400 Apartments, 40-story 119 m/392 ft apartment building completed in 1967 (north)¹

First Avenue

• Terrence Cardinal Cook Building (south)
• Church of St. John the Evangelist (south)
• Bristol Apartments, 33-story apartment building completed in 1973²

Second Avenue

• Brevard Apartments, 30-story apartments completed in 1981³
• Marymount Manhattan College Dormitory, 48-story, 144 m / 473 ft mixed apartment house and dormitory completed in 2001 ⁴ (north)
• 919 Third Avenue, 47-story 188 m / 615 ft building completed in 1971 (north)
• P. J. Clarke's, tavern for holding its own and keep intact despite attempts to destroy it for 919 Third. (north)⁵

Third Avenue

Lexington Avenue

• Central Synagogue (south)
• DLT Entertainment headquarters (south)
• Levin Institute (south)

Park Avenue

• Park Avenue Place, 38-story, 144 m 472 ft office tower completed in 2004⁶ (south)
• Park Avenue Tower, 36-story 171 m 561 ft office tower completed in 1987 with a distinctive pyramid roof (north)⁶
• Heron Tower, 96 m 314 ft, 25-story building completed in 1986⁷

Madison Avenue (Manhattan)

• Sony Tower, 37-story 197 m 647 ft building completed in 1984 originally to be the headquarters of AT&T (north)
• Finland House, 38-story, 130 m 427 ft office tower completed in 1970 ⁸ (north)
• St. Regis Hotel

West 55th Street

Fifth Avenue

• Peninsula Hotel, 21-story, 76 m 250 ft hotel completed in 1905⁹ (south)
• Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (north)
• MGM Building, 35-story 127 m 416 ft office tower completed in 1966 (south)¹⁰

Avenue of the Americas

• Robert Indiana LOVE (sculpture) (south)
• Capitol-EMI Building 34-story 143 m 470 ft building (north)¹¹
• Burlington House, 50 story, 191 m 625 ft building completed in 1969¹² (south)
• New York City Center, theatre (north)
• CitySpire Center (north), 75-story 248 m 814 ft tower (tallest on street), north¹³
• The London NYC 54-floor 180 m 590 ft tower completed in 1990 (south)¹⁴
• Hotel Wellington (north)

Seventh Avenue

• Park Central Hotel, 25-story 109 m 357 ft tower completed in 1926 most famous for mafia execution in the barber shop¹⁵ (north)
• Dream Hotel (south)
• Mutual of New York Building, 27-story 114 m 375 ft building completed in 1950 whose sign inspired the song Mony, Mony¹⁶

Broadway

• Random House Tower, 52-story 208 m 684 ft tower (north)
• Former original location of Soup Nazi from Seinfeld

Eighth Avenue

Ninth Avenue

• Alvin Ailey Dance Hall (north)
• Julia Miles Theatre (Off Broadway venue) (south)
• Independent High School (north)

Tenth Avenue

• Clinton Towers Apartments 39-story apartment completed in 1974

Eleventh Avenue

Twelfth Avenue

The road crosses a very small block separating 12th Avenue from the West Side Highway (one of the few places where 12th and the West Side Highway are not the same)

West Side Highway

The route concludes at the West Side Highway (New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is the Hudson River

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