Nov 21, 2012
Carter's Review
The Trafalgar is a handsome, pale yellow-brick apartment building on the northeast corner of Broadway at 233 West 99th Street.
The 20-story building has 88 apartments. It was converted to a cooperative in 1985.
It was erected in 1930 and designed by George G. Miller, whose other buildings in Manhattan include 310 East 55th Street, 145 East 22nd Street, 91 and 119 Payson Avenue, 680, 686 and 687 West 204th Street, and 56-70 Cooper Street. Mr. Miller became a partner with Albert Golldhammer and later was a chief designer for Samuel Lefrak.
Bottom Line
One of the more handsome, tall, pre-war apartment buildings along Broadway north of 96th Street, it has Art Deco accents that complement its low-rise neighbor on the boulevard, the former Metro Theater.
Description
The building has a canopied entrance with nice sidewalk landscaping along its blank sidestreet wall. Between the second and third floors, it has a very handsomely patterned masonry beneath a scalloped bandcourse that is repeated about the 13th and 16th floors. The top floors have setbacks.
The building, which has an attractive entrance surround and very nice elevator cab doors, neatly frames the low-rise Art Deco-style former Metro Theater which is just to the south of the 37-story, blue-glass apartment building known as Ariel East.
It permits protruding window air-conditioners.
Amenities
The building has a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, a laundry room, a bicycle room and basement storage. It is also pet friendly.
Apartments
Apartments have high ceilings.
Apartment D on the second through the 16th floors has a 9-foot-wide foyer, a 20-foot-long living room, a dining room next to an enclosed, windowed 7-foot-long kitchen and a 15-foot-long bedroom.
Apartment 1A is a one-bedroom duplex with an open, pass-through kitchen and a double-height living room, a dining room and a bedroom on the lower level and a 21-foot-wide loft space on the upper level.
Apartment 3E has a 15-foot-wide entrance foyer that opens onto a 23-foot-long living room with a 7-foot-long dining alcove off a 9-foot-long enclosed kitchen. A long hall leads to two bedrooms.
A one-bedroom-unit with an 18-foot-long living room, a 7-foot-long dining alcove and an open 8-foot-long kitchen has a wraparound terrace.
A two-bedroom unit has an entry foyer that opens onto a 19-foot-long living room next 15-foot-long dining room with a 15-foot-long open, pass-through kitchen. The 21-foot-long master bedroom opens onto a 13-foot-long office/den.
- Co-op built in 1930
- Converted in 1985
- 1 apartment currently for sale ($675K)
- Located in Broadway Corridor
- 88 total apartments 88 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($412K to $800K)
- Doorman
- Pets Allowed