Carter HorsleyDec 23, 2011
Carter's Review
This pleasant, low-rise apartment building was converted to a cooperative in 1989 and has 60 units.
Although it has two banks of fire escapes, the red-brick, 6-story building does not look like a typical tenement structure because it has a rather unusual entrance and the fire escape banks are spread quite far aboard on the rather broad façade. The entrance, which has a wooden door, has a fan-shaped wooded surround that is highlighted on its top by rusticated bands of limestone.
The building, whose fire escapes are painted red, makes for a rather surprising ensemble with its five-story neighbor to the east, which has a red-stucco façade with very attractive entrance door surrounds that are painted blue-gray.
Both of these buildings are across from the very modern mid-rise RNA Houses, which occupies a very long frontage with its Le Corbusier-style façade of deeply inset windows and spandrels.
This is a one of the city's more dramatic neighborhoods as many of the sidestreets just to the south and east are among the loveliest in the city and several of the city's larger and better housing developments are nearby such as Park West Village to the north and the handsome towers of the West Side Urban Renewal Area along Columbus Avenue.
There is excellent cross-town bus service on this street. There are subway stations are Central Park West and Broadway.
The building has no garage, no health club and no doorman.
- Co-op built in 1920
- Converted in 1989
- Located in Broadway Corridor
- 60 total apartments 60 total apartments
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