Central Park Place is a residential condominium building in the Hell's Kitchen and Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of New York City. The building is at 301 West 57th Street, at the northwest corner with Eighth Avenue. Davis Brody Bond designed Central Park Place, which is tall with 56 stories. Central Park Place's facade is made of gray-green glass and aluminum panels, a color scheme intended to associate the building with the nearby Central Park. Central Park Place was developed by William Zeckendorf Jr., who started acquiring land for the building in 1982. Initially, the tower was planned as a mixed-use development with office space and 310 apartments. After construction costs increased, Zeckendorf changed the plans to modify the number of apartments in the development, and split off the office component into another project. There were several controversies during the tower's construction, including an incident in which a pedestrian was killed by debris. Central Park Place was completed in 1988, and within two years, was almost fully occupied. Site Central Park Place is on the border of the Hell's Kitchen and Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of New York City, one block south of Columbus Circle and the southern border of Central Park. It is bounded by Eighth Avenue to the east and 57th Street to the south. The building faces 4 Columbus Circle and Time Warner Center to the north, 2 Columbus Circle to the northeast, 3 Columbus Circle to the east, and the Hearst Tower to the south. The site is a nearly square lot covering , and measuring . Entrances to the New York City Subway's 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, served by the , are within the base of the tower. Architecture Central Park Place is tall with 56 stories. It was designed by Davis, Brody & Associates, with Rosenwasser/Grossman Consulting Engineers as structural engineer. The tower was built by HRH Construction. The lowest six stories occupy the whole lot, while the upper stories are smaller. Facade Central Park Place's facade is made of gray-green glass and aluminum panels. The color of the facade is intended to associate the building with the nearby Central Park. Most apartments have bay windows that extend nearly the full height of the floor. The windows measure and project from the facade, creating three-sided windows. There are several cantilevers from the facade, giving views of Central Park to some of the side apartments. Architecture critic Carter