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Carter Horsley's Building Review Carter Horsley
Dec 23, 2011
57 CITYREALTY RATING
  • #39 in Broadway Corridor

Carter's Review

One of the prettiest buildings on one of the city's greatest residential blocks, this handsome, Italian Renaissance-palazzo-style apartment building was erected in 1911 and converted to a cooperative in 1988.

The 12-story building has 59 apartments and is one of many pre-war buildings with sidewalk landscaping and seating that make this one of the city's nicest residential blocks. The east end of this quiet street faces Manhattan Square, the large park in which the American Museum of Natural History stands.

This building has a canopied, step-up entrance flanked by lanterns, two-story-high limestone pilasters and a doorman. The building has nice wrought-iron balconies, some leaded windows, a two-story limestone base, limestone window reveals on the third floor and handsome entrance doors. It has no garage and no health club.

This location is right in the heart of the Upper West Side, very close to famous stores along Broadway and a delightful stretch of sidewalk caf¿s a few blocks north on Amsterdam Avenue.

There is very good public transportation and this area is convenient to the various amenities of the Lincoln Center District about a dozen blocks to the south.

Carter B. Horsley

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