The El Dorado is a cooperative apartment building at 300 Central Park West, between 90th and 91st Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was built from 1929 to 1931. Margon & Holder was the architect of record, and Emery Roth was the consulting architect. Louis Klosk developed it. The building is Art Deco.
It is 391 feet tall. A 17-story base supports two 12-story towers, which have stepped finials above the 30th story. The first three stories are cast stone, and the main entrance has three bronze arches. It opened with 200 apartments and about 1,500 rooms.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 delayed its completion, and it was sold at a foreclosure auction in 1931. It became a cooperative in July 1982 and a New York City landmark in July 1985.
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