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About 237 Central Park West
This handsome 15-story, pre-war apartment building is a cooperative and has 75 apartments.
The beige-brick building has a three-story, rusticated limestone base and a very attractive roofline punctuated by open-pediment window surrounds. It is also highlighted by very attractive spandrels that depict helmets and shields on every third floor and has impressive wrought-iron window grills on the first floor. The building's quoins have been replaced with a different colored masonry than the rest of the facades. A nice feature of the façade is a rounded course at the base of the building in addition to five bandcourses and two-story decorative window surrounds on the fourth and fifth floors. The building has some wrought-iron balconies, and a sidestreet, canopied entrance with a vaulted ceiling lobby. The building a doorman, and permits protruding air-conditioners, and has no sidewalk landscaping, no health club and no garage.
The building has many fine views of Central Park and there is excellent bus service in this area as well as many nice restaurants nearby on Columbus Avenue. There are subway stations on 86th Street.
Carter B. Horsley
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