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About 127 West 96th Street
This pleasantly eclectic apartment building was erected in 1930 and converted to a cooperative in 1984. The 17-story building has 145 apartments.
The brown-brick building has a pair of very demure and quixotic pelican statues on the third story and an arched limestone surround at its canopied entrance. The building has no sidewalk landscaping and permits protruding air-conditioners. It has no garage, no doorman and no health club.
There is excellent public transportation and the building is not far from both Central and Riverside Parks.
It is in one of the city's more dramatic neighborhoods as many of the sidestreets just to the south and east 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.
A very handsome former low-rise bank building just to the west on this block has been converted to a pharmacy and there is a considerable "light and air" on this major cross-street.
Carter B. Horsley
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