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About Opus, 2770 Broadway
Built on the site of the former Olympia movie theater, 2770 Broadway is a 22-story condominium apartment building that was completed in 2005.
It is located on the southeast corner of Broadway at 107th Street directly across Broadway from Straus Park, the northern terminus of West End Avenue. Broadway is sharply angled at this location and the building mirrors this with its "prow" that faces north.
Designed by Randolph Gerner of GKV Architects, it was developed by The Clarett Group, whose principals are Vernonica Hackett and Neil Klarfeld, and Prudential Real Estate Investors. The Clarett Group also developed the Montrose at 308 East 38th Street and, with Post Properties, the Post Toscana at 389 East 89th Street and the Post Luminaria at 385 First Avenue. The Clarett Group and Prudential Real Estate Investors bought this site from Eastern Consolidated Properties Inc., which operates Clearview Cinemas, for $16,600,000 and they also acquired a nearby property on West 108th Street for "inclusionary housing" that permitted them to build additional space on this site.
The 64-unit building features 2-to-5-bedroom apartments with initial prices that ranged from about $850,000 to $3,000,000. Most of the units are classic "sixes" and "sevens" and have flexible living and dining rooms that can be converted to extra bedrooms. The building has a children's playroom with books and a video library. It also has floor-to-ceiling windows and all apartments have Whirlpool washers and dryers, the kitchens have marble countertops, cherry wood cabinets and stainless-steel appliances from Kitchen-Aid. Bathrooms have Italian cararra marble.
The red rusticated-brick building features curved balconies with glass balustrades at its northwest corner and has two setbacks with terraces. There are only two apartments per floor on the top five floors. It has a landscaped roofdeck, a residents' courtyard, a fitness center, a bicycle room and owner storage. Twelve of the apartments have gas-burning fireplaces and some ceilings are 11 feet high.
Only one block from Riverside Drive, this location is also close to many attractive restaurants with sidewalk cafes just a few blocks to the north and Columbia University is also not far away to the north.
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