The Majestic is a housing cooperative located at 115 Central Park West between 71st Street and 72nd in New York City. The apartment building was constructed in 1930-1931 in the Art Deco style by real estate developed by Irwin S. Chanin. The building has 238 apartments in 29 stories. Like the San Remo cooperative three blocks north, it has two towers facing the Central Park. The apartment building replaced the Hotel Majestic designed by Alfred Zucker in 1894. The steel framed building was originally planned as a 45 story hotel, but the plans where changed mid way in the construction due to the depression and the passing of the Multiple Dwelling Act.
The Majestic was home to some of the former heads of the Luciano crime family (later called the Genovese crime family) including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. In 1957, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante shot Frank Costello in the lobby of the Majestic in a failed assassination attempt.[2]
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter lived in apartment 17J in 1933. Buchalter was a founding member of the New York syndicate, along with Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, and was head of its security arm, Murder, Inc.
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