12 West 96th Street: Review and Ratings
between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue View Full Building Profile
This very attractive, Italian-Renaissance-palazzo-style, mid-block, apartment building was erected in 1930 and converted to a cooperative in 1970.
The 17-story building has 72 apartments.
This is an attractive block that is anchored at Central Park West by the very impressive First Church of Christ Scientist on Central Park West that was erected in 1903 and designed by Carr¿re & Hastings in the style of Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches in London. The block has combines several attractive, mid-rise, apartment buildings with numerous low-rise structures.
The neighborhood is one of the more interesting ones in the city as many of the sidestreets to the south are among the loveliest in the city and several of the city's larger and better housing developments are nearby such as Park West Village to the north and the handsome towers of the West Side Urban Renewal Area along Columbus Avenue.
There is excellent cross-town bus service on this street and the Eighth Avenue subway station is at the Central Park West corner.
This building has a one-story limestone base with a canopied entrance flanked by lanterns and sidewalk landscaping that leads to a lovely marble lobby with handsome wall friezes. It also has very elegant limestone pilasters between the second and third floors and higher up on its façade and an attractive large limestone bandcourse above the third floor.
The building has no doorman, no garage, no health club and no balconies and permits protruding air-conditioners.
Carter B. Horsley
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