90 Riverside Drive: Review and Ratings

Review of 90 Riverside Drive by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 16-story building at 90 Riverside Drive on the northeast corner at 81^st Street was erected in 1926 and designed by Schwartz & Gross.

It was converted to a co-operative in 1968 and has 106 apartments.

Bottom Line

This elegant, pre-war, Schwartz & Gross building has three wings and good amenities at an excellent location on Riverside Drive.

Description

The red-brick building has three-wings, each with their own service and passenger elevators.

The building has a canopied entrance flanked by sconces and topped by a very attractive balcony with two arched windows.  It has a two-story limestone base with bandcourses over the second and 13^th stories and string courses over the third and 12^th stories. 

There are attractive window surrounds on the third floor with pediments at the corners and there are three-story window surrounds on the top three floors beneath the cornice’s dentils.

It has quoins and permits protruding air-conditioners, but has inconsistent fenestration and no sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, a concierge, a health club, a roof deck, a live-in manager, and a bicycle room with an air pump, but no garage and not balconies.  Pets are allowed.

Apartments

Penthouse B is a four-bedroom unit with a 38-foot-wide entrance gallery that leads to a 16-foot-long dining room, a 22-foot-long living room that opens onto a 15-foot-long library and a 3-foot-long kitchen.  The unit has a 51-foot-long terrace facing the river and a shorter terrace facing the side-street.

Apartment 12B is a four-bedroom unit that has a 12-foot-long entry foyer that leads past an 18-foot-long library to a 17-foot-loot square living room and an 18-foot-long dining room with an 8-foot-wide home office across from a 9-fot-long pass-through chef’s  kitchen with a 10-foot-long breakfast room.

Apartment 16G is a three-bedroom unit with an11-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 24-foot-long living room and a 14-foot-long dining room that connects to a 13-foot-wide breakfast as and a 14-foot-long kitchen and a 14-foot-wide office.

Apartment 3D is a two-bedroom unit with a 12-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 24 foot-long living room with a decorative fireplace and a 20-foot-long dining room with a 9-foot-wide  breakfast area across from an 8-foot-wide maid’s room and a 13-foot-long windowed kitchen.

Apartment 3F is a two-bedroom unit with a 10-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long hall that leads to a 23-foot-long living room with a fireplace that opens onto an 18-foot-long dining room that leads to a 11-foot-long maid’s room and a 13-foot-long kitchen.