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About 200 West 86th Street
This 21-story apartment building is one of the largest Art Deco structures on the Upper West Side. It was built in 1929 and converted to a cooperative in 1985. It has 224 apartments.
The handsome, yellow-beige brick building abounds in good but not extravagant Art Deco detailing. Its canopied entrance leads into a very large and airy double-height lobby. The building has a doorman and a concierge and a two-story limestone base. It permits protruding air-conditioners and has inconsistent windows.
Its location is impressive as it is directly across from the Belnord apartment building that occupies the full block bounded by 86th and 87th Streets and Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway and is noted for its impressive arched entrances to its large central courtyard and garden. Diagonally across Amsterdam Avenue from this building is the equally impressive Romanesque Revival style West Park Presybterian Church.
There is excellent cross-town bus service. The Broadway subway has a station half a block away and the building is about equidistant from Central Park and Riverside Park.
The area has good schools and several religious institutions and one of the city's nicest strips of sidewalk cafés is just to the south on Columbus Avenue.
Carter B. Horsley
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