299 Riverside Drive: Review and Ratings

Review of 299 Riverside Drive by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 12-story, pre-war, cooperative apartment building at 299 Riverside Drive on the southeast corner at 102^nd Street has 57 units.

It was erected in 1911.

It was designed by Evan T. MacDonald.

Bottom Line

A pleasant pre-war with a 6-step-up entrance and a four-step-up vestibule and a nice copper cornice.

Description

The brown-brick building has a 6-step-up, side-street entrance that leads to a four-step-up vestibule and a nice marble-clad lobby, a low but large wrought-iron railing, and a three-story, rusticated limestone base. It has a nice marble lobby, a large, bracketed, copper cornice, entrance lanterns, arched windows on the second and top floor.

The building has some protruding air-conditioners and no sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

The building, which has fine views of the Hudson River and Riverside Park, a  part-time doorman and a live-in superintendent, but no sidewalk landscaping, no health club, no roof deck and no garage.

Apartments

Apartments 1E is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an 18-foot-long living room with a bar adjacent to a pantry and an open kitchen and across from a 12-foot-wide dining area with a fireplace.  The unit also has a 19-foot-long family room.

Apartment 8C is a one-bedroom unit with an 18-foot-long living room next to an enclosed 12-foot-long kitchen.  There is a 23-foot-long gallery that leads to a 16-foot-long dining room that also opens onto the living room that opens onto a 16-foot-wide dining room.

Apartment 9A is a three-bedroom unit that has a 9-footlong entry foyer next to an 11-foot-long kitchen and a 17-foot-long dining area adjacent to a 2-foot-long living room