Dec 28, 2018
Carter's Review
This attractive, 5-story, mid-block building at 28 West 74th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue was erected in 1902 and converted to a co-operative in 1987.
It has 18 apartments.
The building was designed by Percy Griffin for Frederick Ambrose Clark and is in an historic district.
Bottom Line
A very handsome, Georgian-style, mid-block townhouse building with 18 apartments near Central Park West.
Description
The red-brick building was designed in the Beaux-Arts and Georgian Revival styles with a low stoop and pitched room with dormers.
It has a limestone base and attractive window surrounds on the second and third floors. The middle window on the fourth floor has a small balcony and their is a larger center stone balcony on the second floor.
Amenities
The building has an elevator and some fireplaces.
Apartments
A penthouse quadraplex has an eight-foot-wide entry foyer with a spiral staircase on its second floor that leads to a 23-foot-wide living room with a 24-foot-wide balcony and a 7-foot-long enclosed kitchen. The lower level has two bedrooms and third floor had a 16-foot-wide mezzanine office. The fourth level is an 11-foot-wide roof garden.
Apartment 2BC is a duplex, three-bedroom unit with an entry stair on the upper floor that leads to a 12-foot-square study and two bedrooms and the lower floor has 23-foot-wide, double-height living room with a fireplace next to a four-step-up, 23-foot-long open kitchen and a 14-foot-long dining room that leads up six stairs to a double-height, 20-foot-wide great room/library with a fireplace. The lower level also has a bedroom.
Penthouse 3 is two-bedroom duplex unit with an entry on the lower level that leads to an 18-foot-wide living/dining room with a fireplace and a spiral staircase and an open, 11-foot-long kitchen with a breakfast bar. The upper level has the bedrooms and a spiral staircase to a 15-foot-wide angled terrace.
- Co-op built in 1902
- Converted in 1987
- Located in Central Park West
- 18 total apartments 18 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($700K to $3.2M)