160 West 77th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 160 West 77th Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 9-story building at 160 West 77th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues was erected in 1925 and has 45 co-operative apartments. 

It was converted in 1981. 

It is not far from the American Museum of Natural History and public transportation.

Bottom Line

An attractive, mid-block, mid-rise, pre-war building with a roof deck in a good Upper West Side location.

Description

The beige-brick building has a canopied entrance and a two-and-a-half-story entrance surround with sidewalk landscaping.  

It has a bandcourse above the second and seventh floors and two-story-high window surrounds at the sides of the top two floors. 

The fifth floor has some central decorative balconies. 

Amenities

The building has a roof deck, a bicycle room, a windowed play room, a live-in superintendent, a laundry, an elevator and full-height storage cases in the basement storage.

Apartments

Apartment 9B is a two-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room and an enclosed 16-foot-wide, windowed dining room that leads past an 11-foot-wide maid's room to a 16-foot-wide enclosed and windowed kitchen. 

Apartment 9A is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an 18-foot-loing living room that is next to a 16-foot-wide dining area close to the 11-foot-wide enclosed and windowed kitchen with an island. 

Apartment A on the 2nd and 3rd floors is a four-bedroom duplex with 2,150 square feet, three windowed bathrooms and an enclosed dining room. 

Apartment 6B is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 23-foot living/dining room with an open kitchen with an island.