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About 245 West 107th Street
This handsome pre-war building at 245 West 107th Street was erected in 1929 and converted to a cooperative in 1980.
It has 117 apartments and very nice terracotta window surrounds on its second and third floors and a prominent scalloped bandcourse aqbove the fourth floor and a smaller one beneath the 13th floor and a stringcourse below the 15th floor.
The building was designed by Sugarman & Berger and is also known as 2780 Broadway. It on the northeast corner at Broadway and across 107th Street from the Opus apartment tower. Both buildings overlook Straus Park at the intersection of Broadway and West End Avenues.
The building has a canopied entrance with nice entrance doors that lead to a vaulted lobby and a concierge.
The 15-story, beige-brick building houses Garden of Eden, one of the city's very finest gourmet food stores. It is convenient to public transportation.
It has no balconies and permits protruding air-conditioners.
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