Dec 26, 2013
Carter's Review
This attractive, 14-story, pre-war apartment building at 255 West End Avenue between 71st and 72nd Streets was erected in 1917 and converted to a co-operative in 1984. It has 58 apartments.
Bottom Line
A pleasant pre-war at an excellent location on West End Avenue, half a block from Riverside Drive and a block-and-a-half from the express subway station at Broadway.
Description
The reddish-brown-brick building has a nice two-story entrance surround with a canopy, slightly inset windows, stringcourses above the second and fourth and 13th floors and bandcourses above the third and 12th floors and two-story window surrounds on the top two floors. The fourth-floor windows have attractive stone window surrounds beneath circular stone ornaments.
It also has a “broken” roof line and decorative spandrel elements above the 4th, 5th, 7th, and 9th floors.
Amenities
The building has a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, a laundry, a bicycle room and a storage room and a laundry room. It permits pets.
Apartments
Penthouse C is a two-bedroom duplex with an entry foyer on the lower level that leads to a 19-foot-long living room with a staircase and a 10-foot-wide kitchen and a bedroom and on the upper level a 16-foot-long bedroom with a 750-square-foot terrace.
Apartment 13CD is a three-bedroom unit with a 12-foot-long entry foyer that leads past an 8-foot-long kitchen with a pass-through to the 18-foot-long living room and a 19-foot-long dining room.
Apartment 10B is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 17-foot-long living room and an 11-foot-long kitchen.
Apartment 8a is a two-bedroom unit that has a 10-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room.
- Co-op built in 1916
- 1 apartment currently for sale ($985K)
- Located in Riverside Dr./West End Ave.
- 58 total apartments 58 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($410K to $1.8M)
- Doorman