The Majestic (New York City)

The Majestic is an exclusive, traditional apartment building in New York City on the Upper West Side, which is located between 71st Street and 72nd Street and Central Park West. A neighboring building is the Dakota. It is adjacent to the San Remo, the Century and the Eldorado is one of four built in the 1930s houses with twin towers on Central Park West.

Background

The Majestic was once built where previously was the Majestic Hotel, which was designed by Alfred sugar in 1894 and home of the composer Gustav Mahler, the novelist Edna Ferber and many other was. The building was originally planned as 45stöckiges Hotel. However, this was abandoned during the Great Depression and after the goodbye of the Multiple Dwelling Act in favor of an apartment house.

Resident

• Actor Milton Berle
• Actor Zero Mostel
• Fashion designer Marc Jacobs lived with his mother until the mid- 1980s there
• Talk show host Conan O'Brien sold his apartment in mid-2010
• Several prominent members of the Genovese family, including Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky
• Mobster Louis Buchalter, a leading member of Murder, Inc., was living in 1933 in apartment 17J

In 1957, the mobster Vincent Gigante committed to Frank Castello in the lobby of the Majestic an assassination attempt, which failed, however.