Park West Historic District. The building located at 55 Central Park West is the infamous "Spook Central" from the movie Ghostbusters. The famed New York City restaurant Tavern on the Green is located off Central Park West, at 66th Street, within the grounds of Central Park. In 1899, while exiting a streetcar, Henry Bliss was run over by a taxi at CPW and West 74th Street, becoming the first person to be run down and killed by a motor car in the Americas. Frederick Douglass Boulevard North of Frederick Douglass Circle at 110th Street in Harlem, it is Frederick Douglass Boulevard, though sometimes still unofficially referred to as Eighth Avenue. Frederick Douglass Boulevard eventually terminates near the Harlem River at the Harlem River Drive around West 159th Street. While Central Park West has its own address system, address numbers on Frederick Douglass Boulevard continue from where they would be if Central Park West used the Eighth Avenue numbering system. The corridor along Frederick Douglass Boulevard was reallocated in 2003, allowing for larger residential buildings of greater density, and resulting in the construction of condominiums, rental buildings, restaurants, and cafes. Formerly described as having urban blight, it is now gentrified, especially in the restaurants along its route, giving it the nickname "Restaurant Row". This gentrification is partly due to massive city investment. According to The New York Times the demographic too has changed: Points of interest The Fashion Institute of Technology (at 26th/27th Streets) Madison Square Garden and Penn Station (between 31st and 33rd Streets) James Farley Post Office The New York Times Building at 40th Street The Port Authority Bus Terminal (between 40th and 42nd Streets) One Worldwide Plaza Hearst Tower Soros Foundation and Open Society Institute headquarters on West 59th Street 111 Eighth Avenue, the Art Deco former Inland Freight Terminal of the Port Authority, is the eighth-largest commercial structure in Manhattan, hosting the East Coast headquarters of Google. Gallery References Notes External links New York Songlines: Eighth Avenue, a virtual walking tour 08 West Village Greenwich Village Chelsea, Manhattan Upper West Side Harlem Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan Midtown Manhattan