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

Carter's Review

This handsome, Italian Renaissance-palazzo-style apartment building was erected in 1923 and converted to a cooperative in 1984.

The beige-brick, 16-story building has 64 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 that leads to a rather plain lobby with a concierge. The building permits protruding air-conditioners and has inconsistent fenestration.

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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