Carter HorsleyDec 23, 2011
Carter's Review
This handsome, 19-story apartment building at 160 West 71st Street on the southeast corner at Broadway is directly across the street from the fabulous Dorilton apartment building, one of the grandest architectural confections in the city.
For many years, it was known as the Almanac Hotel and was frequently used by Babe Ruth. It is now known as the South Pierre.
This building was erected in 1923 by the George Dose Engineering Corporation of which Joseph R. Altieri was president. It is now owned by the Brodsky Organization.
The architect was Maynicke & Franke.
It has 303 rental apartments.
Bottom Line
A very elegant, pre-war rental apartment building near the epicenter of the Upper West Side with fine public transportation and walking distance to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Description
According to the July 12, 1922 edition of The New York Times, this building originally had a dining room to accommodate 100 persons on the 19th floor.
It has a two-story limestone base and a very broad dark entrance marquee.
The building has four setbacks and the middle of its Broadway and side-street frontages have extremely attractive window surrounds and ornamentation of the center setbacks highlighted by some urns atop their parapets.
The building is nicely complimented on Broadway by its next-door neighbor, the Coronado, whose massing and general palette are quite similar.
Amenities
The building has a concierge, a bicycle room and a laundry room.
It is pet-friendly.
- No Fee Rental built in 1923
- 1 apartment currently for rent ($3.9K)
- Located in Broadway Corridor
- 303 total apartments 303 total apartments
- Doorman
- Pets Allowed
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