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About The Alameda, 255 West 84th Street
This very handsome, 13-story, apartment building was erected in 1914. It is a cooperative with 75 units.
While many so-called "white-brick" apartment buildings erected after World War II are known for their banal architecture and actually are faced with light-gray bricks, this building is covered with genuinely white bricks, which are very attractive.
The building has a nice rusticated one-story base with a canopied, one-step-up entrance, impressive balconies, three bandcourses and consistent fenestration. It has a doorman, sidewalk landscaping and protruding air-conditioners, but no cornice. Its sidestreet retail space is occupied by Café Edgar.
It has a central Upper West Side location close to Zabars, Barnes & Noble, a cineplex and numerous restaurants and stores. It is not far from a subway station on Broadway at 86th Street, which has excellent cross-town bus service. It has no health club, no garage and no concierge.
The neighborhood is one of the city's finest architecturally with many superb pre-World War II apartment buildings and some well-designed late 20th Century apartment houses as well.
Carter B. Horsley
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