The Fairmont Manor, 401 East 86th Street: Review and Ratings
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This large, 19-story, white-brick building was erected in 1964 and converted to a cooperative in 1982. It has 227 apartments.
The building has an attractive lobby with a glass wall along 86th Street with a small strip of landscaping in front of it. The step-up lobby is at the eastern end of the building whose long base on 86th Street is blank because its avenue frontage is occupied by a large supermarket. Part of the blank cross-street base is decorated with green and white bricks, but not the entire length.
The building has a doorman, a garage, some terraces and a canopied entrance. It permits protruding air-conditioners. The center of the cross-street façade is setback above the first floor, which has a small stainless steel overhang.
There is convenient neighborhood shopping and restaurants as well as excellent crosstown bus service. Carl Schurz Park is two long blocks away to the east.
Carter B. Horsley
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