Carter HorsleyDec 23, 2011
Carter's Review
This attractve, 30-story, brown-brick apartment tower at 340 East 93rd Street in Yorkville is known as the Plymouth Tower and it was erected in 1980 and converted to a co-operative in 1986. It occupies the First Avenue frontage between 92nd and 93rd streets.
It was a project initiated by The Investors Funding Corporation, which went into bankruptcy, and was completed by a joint venture of Bay Colony Properties Company of Boston and Morse Diesel Inc.
It was designed by Schuman Lichtenstein & Claman.
It now has 367 co-operative apartments and retail space on the ground floor.
Bottom Line
Convenient to the 92nd Street Y and the Asphalt Green, this tower has many apartments and many amenities including a roof-top swimming pool and very lush sidewalk landscaping.
Description
The cream-colored-brick building has a granite and cobblestone plaza at its entrance and a lushly planted garden with gazebo and lattice fencing and broad-topped stone planters that invite seating.
The building has a one-story rusticated stone base, a canopied entrance and a lobby with a lot of marble.
It has discrete air-conditioners.
Amenities
The building has a doorman, a concierge, a building manager, a mezzanine laundry room, a roof-top health club with swimming pool, a garage with building access, a bicycle room, and it permits pets.
Apartments
Most apartments have 19-foot-long living rooms and pass-through kitchens.
- Co-op built in 1977
- 2 apartments currently for sale ($559K to $599K)
- 2 apartments currently for rent ($3.7K to $6.5K)
- Located in Yorkville
- 367 total apartments 367 total apartments
- 10 recent sales ($520K to $1.2M)
- Doorman
- Pets Allowed
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