175 West 92nd Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 175 West 92nd Street by Carter Horsley

This quite attractive, 6-story, red-and-brown brick apartment building at 175 West 92nd Street is a cooperative and is known as The Clayton.

It has 48 units and is also known as 661-665 Amsterdam Avenue and 176-182 West 93rd Street.

It was erected in 1940 and designed by Horace Ginsbern and built by Kleban and Leader.

Bottom Line

The through-block building is distinguished by great entrances and very handsome architectural neighbors and it has sunken living rooms.

Description

The building is highlighted by its superb Art Deco-style entrances on 92^nd and 93^rd Streets.  A notched, white stone entrance surround with banded rounded quarter columns embraces stainless-steel doors with three portholes each.  The surround is flanked by a five-step planter on both sides and set within a red granite frame with porthole windows at either end and the building’s address in large, thin Italic lettering.  The planters extend a bit onto the building’s red-brick masonry walls and the overall effect is a stately but bold process of entry.

The red masonry façades have brown decorative sections between many of the windows visually tying together the overall composition that successfully distracts from the recessed fire escapes over the side-street entrances and on the avenue frontage.

The building has some protruding air-conditioners and some corner windows.

The building is across the street from the very handsome Central Baptist Church on the southeast corner at 92^nd Street and the large and very impressive mid-block Joan of Arc Junior High School complex on 93^rd Street.

Amenities

The building has a part-time doorman seven days a week, a live-in superintendent, storage, a laundry and a bicycle room. It allows pets.

Apartments

Apartment 6E is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past a 14-foot-long dining room next to a 10-foot-long enclosed kitchen and a sunken 23-foot-long living room next to a 13-foot-long den.

Apartment 3G is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that opens into an 11-foot-long dining area and a 10-foot-long pass-through kitchen and a 21-foot-long living room with an angled sunken living room.

Apartment 2B is a two-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that opens onto a 15-foot-long open kitchen with an island adjacent to an 11-foot-wide dining area that leads to a sunken 20-foot-loot long living room.

Apartment A is a one-bedroom unit that has a five-side, 21-foot-long entrance gallery that opens onto a 8-foot-long windowed kitchen net to an open 10-foot-long kitchen and it also leads to a 21-footlong sunken living room.

Apartment 1A is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that opens onto an angled, 18-foot-long kitchen/dining area with an island and a 13-foot-square living room that is next to a 12-foot-long den.

Apartment 4C is a studio unit with a 10-foot-wide entry foyer that opens onto a 16-foot-long living room with a 8-foot-wide sleeping area and an enclosed 8-foot-long kitchen.