Carter's Review

This handsome, brown-brick-and-concrete, 33-story building at 95 West 95th Street occupying the west blockfront on Columbus Avenue between 95th and 96th streets was erected in 1970 and is known as Columbus House. 

It was developed by Edward Sulzberger, John H. Lese and the Cord Meyer Development Company. 

This building has 248 rental apartments. 

It was originally designed as part of the West Side Urban Renewal Plan by Ballard, Todd & Snibbe, which had designed the 27-story apartment building known as Columbus Park Towers on the east side of Columbus Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets in 1967.  It was subsequently redesigned by Horace Ginsbern & Associates, which had designed the 20-story Jefferson Towers in 1968 on the east side of Columbus Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets. 

Bernard Albin Associates was the landscape architect. 

The building has a separate store building with about 6,500 square feet of retail space and there is also 3,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor of the tower. 

There is good bus service in the area and the IRT subway express station is two blocks away on Broadway. 

The building is just to the west of the very long apartment RNA apartment building at 150-160 West 96th Street that was designed by Edelbaum & Webster in a style that recalls the fine bee-hive façade of Kips Bay Plaza by I.M. Pei.

Bottom Line

A clean-cut and crisp, dark high-rise tower strong vertical accents and many balconies that start at the 10th floor on an important site on the east side of Columbus Avenue between 95th and 96th Streets in the West Side Urban Renewal District between 87th and 97th Streets between Central Park West and Amsterdam Avenue.

Description

The building is setback in a large, landscaped plaza and its concrete piers are tapered vertically.

Its second floor has a laundry and community facilities, carriage rooms and meeting rooms and a connecting ramp will link it to an outdoor play area on top of a three-level garage, two levels of which are below ground.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and a live-in superintendent.

Apartments

Apartment 7E is a three-bedroom unit with an entry into a 22-foot-long living room with a balcony and an enclosed, 8-foot-long kitchen. 

Apartment 18G is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer next to an open kitchen with a breakfast bar and a 21-foot-long living/dining room with a balcony. 

Apartment 4A is a two-bedroom unit with an small entry foyer across from the open, 12-foot-long kitchen with a breakfast bar next to a 9-foot-long dining alcove and a 25-foot-long living room. 

Apartment 31B is a one-bedroom unit with an entry by the enclosed, 9-foot-long kitchen and the 18-foot-long living room.