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About 173 Riverside Drive
One of the more monumental edifices along Riverside Drive, this 16-story building occupies an entire blockfront and like many of its neighbors facing Riverside Park has an asymmetrical plan because of the drive's curves.
Built in 1926, the 169-unit building has large apartments and its large mass is tempered by three major courses that run across its facade as well as chamfered corners.
The spectacular renaissance that began in the 1980's along Broadway, especially in the 80's has made such solid buildings as this significantly more desirable. Indeed, it is amazing that Riverside Drive, with its attractive and large park and Hudson River vistas could ever have fallen in value, especially since the walk to the Upper West Side's main thoroughfare, Broadway, is much nicer, and shorter, from Riverside Drive than from Central Park West.
The building, which was converted to a cooperative in 1968, has one of the most elegant settings along the drive as it is across form the Soldiers and Sailors Monument that was designed by Stoughton & Stoughton with Paul Emile Marie Duboy and based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens.
The building is a landmark and has an "English-style" garden with a fountain as well as a bicycle room, a recreation room, a playroom, storage rooms and a fitness center. Mail is delivered to each apartment.
The building is not far from a supermarket on Broadway and 90th Street.
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