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About The Gatsby, 65 East 96th Street
This handsome, 15-story building was erected in 1924. It is a cooperative with 60 apartments.
The brown-brick, mid-block building has limestone quoins, very nice first-story window grates east of the entrance, nice decorative spandrels above the first story and finials above the second-story bandcourse. The building has a doorman, a three-step-up vestibule, spiked sidewalk landscaping, protruding air-conditioners and an exposed rooftop watertank. It has no balconies, no roof deck and no health club.
It is on an attractive street very close to Central Park where there is a nearby children's playground. There is a subway station at 96th Street and Lexington Avenue and good cross-town bus service on 96th Street.
While 96th Street was the traditional northern boundary for the Upper East Side, new construction by Mount Sinai Hospital a few blocks to the north and new luxury apartment towers a few blocks to the east have spurred a significant upgrading of this area, which borders on the very handsome Carnegie Hill district, which has many private schools and important cultural institutions.
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