345 Riverside Drive: Review and Ratings

Review of 345 Riverside Drive by Carter Horsley

This 6-story building at 345 Riverside Drive on the southeast corner at 107^th Street was erected in 1951.

 It has 54 co-operative apartments and was incorporated in 1986.

Bottom Line

This post-war, low-rise, yellow-brick building is distinguished by its unusual window surrounds of thin red masonry bands.

Description

This yellow-brick building has a one-story red-brick base with a one-step-up entrance and a very long and handsome disabled ramp on the side-street.

It has unusual, notable and very attractive window surrounds of thin red-brick bands on other side of the windows on Riverside Drive and on either side of the side-street entrance.

The building has several fire escapes that are set back in light wells.

The building has some protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and a garage.

Apartments

Apartment 5D is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that opens into a 13-foot-long dining area on one side of which is 14-foot-long enclosed, windowed kitchen and the other is a 19-foot-long living room.

Apartment 4C is a one-bedroom unit with a very large, angled foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room and an 8-foot-wide office/nursery and an enclosed, windowed kitchen.

Apartment 3E is a two-bedroom unit with a 13-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room in one direction and a large, enclosed and windowed kitchen in the other.

Apartment 4G is a one-bedroom unit that has a 12-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long-living room with a 7-foot-wide, windowed dining alcove next to an enclosed 8-foot-wide kitchen.