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Carter Horsley's Building Review Carter Horsley
Dec 23, 2011
59 CITYREALTY RATING

Carter's Review

This very handsome, 13-story, apartment building was erected in 1914. It is a cooperative with 75 units.

While many so-called "white-brick" apartment buildings erected after World War II are known for their banal architecture and actually are faced with light-gray bricks, this building is covered with genuinely white bricks, which are very attractive.

The building has a nice rusticated one-story base with a canopied, one-step-up entrance, impressive balconies, three bandcourses and consistent fenestration. It has a doorman, sidewalk landscaping and protruding air-conditioners, but no cornice. Its sidestreet retail space is occupied by Caf¿ Edgar.

It has a central Upper West Side location close to Zabars, Barnes & Noble, a cineplex and numerous restaurants and stores. It is not far from a subway station on Broadway at 86th Street, which has excellent cross-town bus service. It has no health club, no garage and no concierge.

The neighborhood is one of the city's finest architecturally with many superb pre-World War II apartment buildings and some well-designed late 20th Century apartment houses as well.

Carter B. Horsley

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