Gary Starkman, MD

When the body’s electrical system starts sending mixed signals—numbness, tremors, or unexplained dizziness—neurology steps in as the quiet detective work of medicine. Gary Starkman, MD practices that specialty from an office on the Upper West Side, where Central Park’s tree-lined edges meet the grid of midtown ambition. The address is 101 Central Park West, Suite 1b, a building that blends pre-war brick with the hum of subway vents at the corner. Patients here navigate conditions that often feel invisible to everyone else: migraines that rewrite the day, seizures that erase moments, or nerve pain that lingers like static. They answer questions at (212) 787-8700, scheduling visits that might involve EEGs, nerve conduction studies, or simply a conversation about symptoms that don’t fit neatly into other specialties.

Neurologists in New York tend to cluster near hospitals, but this practice keeps a lower profile, tucked between a dry cleaner and a café where residents debate whether the park’s Great Lawn is still great. The neighborhood itself—part academic enclave, part longtime rent-stabilized holdouts—shapes the kind of patients who walk in: some rushing from nearby Columbia, others steadying themselves with canes after decades in the same apartment. For directions, the map pin drops precisely here: https://www.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x89c2588c9f3c725d:0x5485e6ee896eb308. No need to guess which entrance; the side door marked 1b faces the park’s western edge, where the light changes fastest at dusk.