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The apartment buildings along Central Park West, facing the park, are some of the most desirable apartments in New York.

The Dakota at 72nd St. has been home to numerous celebrities including John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein and Lauren Bacall.

Other famous buildings on CPW include the Art Deco Century Apartments ( Irwin Chanin, 1931 ) and The Majestic ( building ) also by Chanin.

The San Remo, The Eldorado ( 300 C. P. W., with the highest sum of Democratic presidential campaign contributions by address in 2004 ; the home of Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie Morningstar ), and The Beresford were all designed by Emery Roth, as was 41 West 96th Street ( completed in 1926 ).

His first commission, the Belle Époque Belleclaire, is on Broadway, while the moderne Normandie holds forth on Riverside at 86th Street.

Along Broadway are several Beaux-Arts apartment houses: The Belnord ( 1908 ) – the fronting block of which was co-named in honor of longtime resident I. B.

Singer, plus The Apthorp ( 1908 ), The Ansonia ( 1902 ), The Dorilton and the Manhasset.

All are individually designated New York City landmarks.

Curvilinear Riverside Drive also has many beautiful pre-war houses and larger buildings, including the graceful curving apartment buildings — The Paterno and The Colosseum ( apartment building ) by Schwartz & Gross — at 116th St and Riverside Drive.

West End Avenue, a grand residential boulevard lined with pre-war Beaux-Arts apartment buildings and townhouses dating from the late-19th and early 20th centuries, is closed to commercial traffic.

Columbus Avenue north of 87th Street was the spine for major post-World War II urban renewal.

Broadway is lined with such architecturally notable apartment buildings as The Ansonia, The Apthorp, The Belnord, the Astor Court Building, and The Cornwall, which features an Art nouveau cornice.

Newly constructed 15 Central Park West and 535 West End Avenue are known to be some of the prestigious residential addressess in Manhattan.