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About Astor Court, 210 West 90th Street
This distinguished, 13-story, brown-brick, apartment building is one of the city's few grand apartment buildings erected around a large garden courtyard. The building's plan is in the shape of a "U" with the opening on its eastern façade. It has entrances on both 90th and 89th Streets and the garden is partially visible through the entrances.
The building has one of the largest cornices in the city. The cornice is missing some detailing in the middle of the building's Broadway frontage.
Built in 1915, it is a cooperative with 156 apartments. It was designed by Charles A. Platt.
The three other famous garden courtyard luxury apartment buildings on the Upper West Side are the Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street, the Belnord at 225 West 86th Street and the Apthorp at 2211 Broadway at 79th Street.
The building has a two-story, rusticated limestone base, very nice lobbies with doormen, attractive wrought-iron window grates on the first floor, impressive bronze lanterns flanking the entrances, a garage, a roof deck, protruding air-conditioners, no sidewalk landscaping, and no health club.
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. The lively area has many restaurants and stores. There is a subway station at 86th Street where there is also excellent cross-town bus service.
Carter B. Horsley
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