The Ansonia

Perhaps second only to the Dakota in fame on the Upper West Side, the Ansonia is a luxury apartment building of the highest order. Each apartment is sound proofed to the extent that according to building legend, when one tenant shot himself in 1910, his wife didn't hear the shot in the next room. In the 1970's, the Continental Baths, where Bette Midler entertained before making it big, opened in the building's basement and before long the baths became Plato's Retreat, the city's most famous sex club, now long since closed.

Nearest Subway Stop: 72nd Street 1 2 3

Scenes at this Location

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  Photo Copyright 20th Century Fox 2001
  Don't Say a Word
  Starring: Michael Douglas, Famke Janssen
  It was here in the Ansonia that prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad and his wife Aggie led a happy and peaceful life, until their daughter was kidnapped.
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  Photo Copyright Columbia Pictures 1992
  Single White Female
  Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
  Starring: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh
  When Allie, the single white female, breaks up with her boyfriend, she needs a new roommate to help her pay the rent on her apartment in the Ansonia. When Hedy comes along, she seems like the perfect choice to share a home with. Unfortunately for Allie, Hedy turned out to be a total nutjob.
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  Photo Copyright MGM/UA 2003
  Uptown Girls
  Directed by: Boaz Yakin
  Starring: Brittany Murphy
  Before she lost her money because of an embezzling accountant, Molly Gunn, the daughter of late rock legend, lived out her pampered life here in an apartment at the Ansonia.