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About 444 East 87th Street
This attractive, 6-story, mid-block, apartment building is a cooperative and has 41 apartments.
The gray-brick building has a two-story white marble base with a five-step-down entrance and a five-step-down lobby. It has discrete air-conditioners, consistent fenestration, and fire escapes and no doorman, no concierge, no garage, no health club, no sidewalk landscaping and no roof deck. There is evidence of some façade repairs.
The street is quiet and tree-lined and this building is down the block from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at 408 East 87th Street that was designed in 1895 by William Schickel & Co. In their superb book, "The A.I.A. Guide to New York City, Fourth Edition," published in 2000 by Three Rivers Press, Norval White and Elliot Willensky note that it is "a charming basilican church with a flat neo-Romanesque limestone façade," adding that "the tower ends in a quartet of vigorous Palladian openings."
Carl Schurz Park is nearby and there is excellent cross-town bus service on 86th Street and there are some leading private schools and a nearby hospital in this Gracie Mansion neighborhood. There is an express subway station at Lexington Avenue.
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