Unlike Los Angeles, celebrities on the Upper West Side tend to keep a low profile. For that reason you won’t find many “celebrity UWS maps”. This brief 2.6 mile walking tour provides a glimpse of the buildings many current and former celebrities have called home. From Babe Ruth to John Lennon to Bruce Willis these celebrities have enjoyed the neighborhood charm that this part of the city has to offer.
Fifteen Central Park West – Denzel Washington, Sting, Robert DiNero and Alex Rodriguez
1 W. 67th Street – Noel Coward, Norman Rockwell, Rudolf Valentino and George Balanchine
1 W. 72nd Street – John Lennon & Yoko Ono, July Garland, Roberta Flack, Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Nureyev, Gilda Radner and John Madden
The San Remo – Glenn Close, Mary Tyler Moore, Bruce Willis, Steve Martin and Barry Manlow
211 Central Park West – Helen Gurley Brown, Diane Sawyer, Isaac Stern and Jerry Seinfeld
