300 West 108th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 300 West 108th Street by Carter Horsley

This 15-story apartment building at 300 West 108^th Street was erected in 1924 and designed by Rosario Candela, the most famous architect of luxury pre-war apartment buildings in the city.  It was erected by the Broadway & 108^th Street Corporation, of which Vito Cerabone was president and Michael A. Campagna was secretary.

It was known as the Charlton and was converted to a co-operative in 1982.

It has 75 apartments.

Bottom Line

An elegant pre-war apartment building designed by Rosario Candela that is convenient to Riverside Park and public transportation.

Description

The beige-brick building has a two-story stone base and a very handsome entrance surround on the side-street and stores on the avenue frontage.

There are window surrounds on the third floor and the top two floors.  There are decorative balconies in the center of the 8^th floor on the two façades and a bandcourse with center and end balconies on the 14^th floor.

The building, which has an attractive cornice, has handsome pairs of masonry quoins at its corners.

It permits protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a doorman, a live-in superintendent, a bicycle room, storage and a laundry and is pet-friendly.

Apartments

Apartment 8C is a two-bedroom unit with a long entry foyer that leads past a 23-foot-long dining room next to a pass-through 16-foot-long kitchen to a 23-foot-long living room.

Apartment 7A is a three-bedroom unit with an 8-foot-wide entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 22-foot-long living room and in the other to a 16-foot-long dining room next to a 12-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 3A is a two-bedroom unit with an 8-foot-wide entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 21-foot-long living room and in the other to a 16-foot-long dining room next to a 16-foot-long storage room and a 19-foot-long pass-through kitchen next to a 14-foot-long office.

Apartment 15E is a one-bedroom unit with a 17-foot-long living room and a 14-foot-long kitchen.