The Mirabeau, 165 West 91st Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 165 West 91st Street by Carter Horsley

This attractive, 15-story apartment building at 165 West 91^st Street on the northeast corner at Amsterdam Avenue is known as the Mirabeau and was erected in 1926 and converted to a condominium in 2013.  It has 115 apartments.

It was designed by Goldner & Goldner and the conversion by A & E Real Estate Management was designed by Kinlin Rutherfurd Architects.

Bottom Line

A pleasant, pre-war apartment building with a handsome entrance and full-time doorman that was converted to a condominium in 2013 with new appliances and new windows.

Description

The beige-brick building has a one-story limestone base with a very handsome, balustrade entrance surround with a canopy and sidewalk landscaping.

The building has bandcourses above the second floor and 13^th floors and window surrounds on the top two floors. The 13^th floor also has some balconies at its corners.

The building has a large, 3-step-down lobby.

Elevators have Portoro Gold marble floors and walnut wood paneled walls with bronze trim.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, a landscaped roof deck, a bicycle room, cold storage for deliveries, a laundry room and a children’s playroom.

Apartments

Apartments range in size from one- to five-bedrooms and all have crown moldings and 9-foot-high coffered ceilings with central air-conditioning, washers and dryers, new windows and solid oak basket-weave floors.

Kitchens have appliances by Miele, Betrazzoni stainless steel gas free-standing ranges, and Fisher & Paykel dishwashers, Sub-Zero Side by Side refrigerators, Sub-Zero wine refrigerators, Glassos Nano polished glass countertops and statuary marble backsplashes and wood cabinetry.

Bathrooms have honed travertine stone in Ocean Blue vanity countertops, milk glass wall tiles, and polished Sandstone Gris floor tiles.

Apartment 11E is a four-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past a large kitchen to a 16-foot-long dining room that opens onto a 19-foot-long living room.

Apartment C is a two-bedroom unit that has a large entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living/dining room and diagonally to a large kitchen.

Apartment F is a three-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer that leads to a 23-foot-long living room and a large dining room next to a large kitchen.

Apartment 7E is a two-bedroom unit that has a long entry foyer that opens  onto a 19-foot-long living room and a 18-foot-long dining room next to a large enclosed kitchen.

Apartment B is a one-bedroom unit that has an L-shaped entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living/dining room next to a large kitchen.

Apartment II is a one-bedroom unit with a foyer that leads to a 17-foot-long living/dining room next to a long kitchen.

History

The building was sold in April, 2012 for $69.9 million by Hirth Real Estate Entities to A & E Real Estate Management.

It is on the same street as the Trinity School, one of the oldest in the city, and there used to be a subway station at 91^st Street and Broadway.