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About The Gloucester, 200 West 79th Street
One of the few post-war buildings on 79th Street, this building's spartan design and large bulk make it highly visible.
The red-brick, 18-story building was erected in 1978 and was converted to a cooperative in 1988. It has 272 apartments.
The building has a gracious entrance with sidewalk landscaping and a large marquee. Its rather plain, but clean facades, which have discrete air-conditioners, are greatly improved by the top floor, which has small corner setbacks and are quite small, creating the effect of turrets at either end of the building along its full-block frontage on Amsterdam Avenue.
The building is directly across 79th Street from the very impressive Lucerne Hotel with its deep red facade and colonnaded entrance.
The cross-street runs into Manhattan Square, the park on which the American Museum of Natural History stands, one very pleasant block to the east.
This location is right in the heart of the Upper East Side, very close to famous stores along Broadway and a delightful stretch of sidewalk cafés a few blocks north on Amsterdam Avenue.
There is very good public transportation and this area is convenient to the various amenities of the Lincoln Center District about a dozen blocks to the south.
Carter B. Horsley
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