Notable Residents and Famous Visitors
- Tayyar Akdeniz (Current Resident)
- Thomas Adcock (Current Resident)
- Marin Alsop (Current Resident)
- Dylan Baker (Current Resident)
- Alec Baldwin (Visitor)
- Tiki Barber (Visitor)
- Lewis Black (Unknown)
- Nell Carter (Former Resident)
- Larry David (Former Resident)
- Mike Freeman (Current Resident)
- Dexter Gordon (Former Resident)
- Terrence Howard (Former Resident)
- James Earl Jones (Former Resident and Visitor)
- Alicia Keys (Former Resident)
- Kenny Kramer (Current Resident)
- Andrea McArdle (Current Resident)
- Alan Menken (Unknown)
- Charles Mingus (Former Resident)
- Conan O'Brien (Visitor)
- Al Pacino (Former Resident)
- Adrian Pasdar (Unknown)
- Zachary Quinto (Visitor)
- Mickey Rourke (Former Resident)
- Jack Warden (Former Resident)
- Tennessee Williams (Former Resident)
Journalist and Edgar Award-winning novelist Thomas Adcock, has lived in the Manhattan Plaza since 1984 with his wife and actress Kim Sykes. Larry David, co-creator of the sitcom Seinfeld lived in Manhattan Plaza across from comedian Kenny Kramer who provided inspiration for the character Cosmo Kramer.
James Earl Jones has family members throughout the building. His brother provided the original voice heard when entering the "Park & Lock" Garage Tiki Barber, who was involved with construction of the new playground, has occasionally visited the playground. Samuel L. Jackson worked there as a security officer in his first and only non-acting job.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, residents, famous and/or visitors:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)