The Glenham, 210 West 101st Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 210 West 101st Street by Carter Horsley

This very handsome, pre-war apartment building at 210 West 101^st Street on the southeast corner at Broadway has 167 rental apartments and a penthouse with large terraces that Emery Roth, the famous architect of such Upper West Side landmarks as the San Remo and the Beresford on Central Park West, designed for himself and his family.

The brown-brick building was erected in 1926 and is 15 stories tall.  It is owned by the Jemrock Realty Company.

It is also known 2644-2658 Broadway and the Walter Arms Apartments.

Bottom Line

An extremely attractive apartment on Broadway at 101^st Street with large layouts and some very lovely window surrounds where Emery Roth, the famous architect, designed and lived in the large penthouse.

Description

The building has a two-story limestone base with a dentilated bandcourse above the second floor and a stringcourse above the third floor with extremely attractive window surrounds with three putti on some of the windows between the two floors.  These surrounds also appear on some of the 14^th floor windows and there are 2 two-story-high, colonnaded window surrounds on the 14^th and 15^th floors.

The building has center a light court above the second floor on 101^st Street.

The roof-top watertank enclosure above the penthouse is two-stories high with double-columns in the openings on all four sides beneath a red-tile pyramidal roof.

The building takes up most of its Broadway frontage except for two small buildings at the 100^th Street end.

Amenities

The building has a concierge, a full-time doorman, a fitness center and a live-in superintendent.

Apartments

Penthouse 11 is the former Emery Roth apartment, a three-bedroom unit with a large entrance gallery that opens in one direction to a 23-foot-wide living room with a fireplace and in the other to a 17-foot-wide dining room that opens onto the very large roof terraces and is next to the 20-foot-long kitchen.  The apartment also has a maid’s room and a dog house on the terrace. A January 24, 2014 article by Michelle Higgins in The New York Times noted that the apartment was available “for the first time in nearly a decade” for $15,500 a month.  “With about $2,20 square feet of space, not including the terrace, the unit is spacious and sunny….Although the geometrically inlaid marquetry in the dining room ceiling has been painted white, many original details remain intact, like barrel-vault ceilings, elaborately carved woodwork, stained-glass doors, a working fireplace and striking ceramic-tile floors and wainscoting,”  Ms. Higgins continued.

Apartment 16C is a three-bedroom unit with a 16-foot-long entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 24-foot-long living room and in the other to a 21-foot-long, windowed dining room and a 14-foot-long, windowed kitchen and an 11-foot-long windowed, maid’s room.

Apartment 14F is a two-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room and a 17-foot-long dining room next to a 10-foot-wide, enclosed and windowed kitchen that is adjacent to a 12-foot-long maid’s room.

Apartment 1C is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living/dining room with a 13-foot-long open kitchen with a small window.  Its master bedroom is 20-feet-long.

Apartment 4A is a one-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-long entry foyer across from a 15-foot-wide dining room and 7-foot-long, windowed kitchen.  The living room is 19-feet long.

Apartment 2K is a one-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that is next to the 10-foot-long dining alcove adjacent to a 10-foot-long, windowed kitchen.  The living room is 16-feet long.