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About 107 West 86th Street
This handsome, 16-story apartment building was built in 1929 and converted to a cooperative in 1984. It has 124 apartments.
The beige-brick building has a narrow light well above the entrance that divides its frontage symmetrically. Its Italian-Renaissance-palazzo-style facade has a few decorative balconies and decorative window reveals on the second and third floors and the top two floors.
It has a small, step-up entrance with a first-story limestone base and a large, marble-lined lobby with a concierge. The building permits protruding air-conditioners and has no sidewalk landscaping, no health club and no garage. It has an exposed rooftop watertank.
Central Park is one long block away as is a subway station at Central Park West. Another subway station is two blocks away in the other direction at Broadway. There is excellent cross-town bus service.
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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