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About 30 West 86th Street
This 10-story, condominium apartment building was created in 1990 when floors were added to two, adjacent, attractive, Georgian-style townhouses that dated to about 1900.
While the base of the building is very handsome with rusticated limestone and wrought-iron doors, the added floors are not quite as elegantly detailed. Indeed, the building has a distinct split personality with one broad window on each of the added floors over the eastern townhouse and smaller, but tall, windows over the western. In addition, the roofline of each "segment" is different.
The overall effect is a little odd and ungainly, yet unobstrusive and the preservation of the building's base helps maintain the street's nice ambiance as it is in context with several other low-rise buildings.
The building has 20 apartments.
Central Park is half a block away and there is excellent public transportation as there is a subway station and bus stops at the corner at this major cross-town intersection at Central Park West.
The building has no balconies, no garage and no sidewalk landscaping.
The building is across from the handsome SAJ Synagogue and Hebrew School.
This is a very convenient location on an attractive street with many handsome townhouse structures and an entrance to the Central Park drive is one block south at 85th Street. 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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