Trafalgar, 233 West 99th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 233 West 99th Street by Carter Horsley

The Trafalgar is a handsome, pale yellow-brick apartment building on the northeast corner of Broadway at 233 West 99^th Street. 

The 20-story building has 88 apartments. It was converted to a cooperative in 1985. 

It was erected in 1930 and designed by George G. Miller, whose other buildings in Manhattan include 310 East 55^th Street, 145 East 22^nd Street, 91 and 119 Payson Avenue, 680, 686 and 687  West 204^th Street, and 56-70 Cooper Street. Mr. Miller became a partner with Albert Golldhammer and later was a chief designer for Samuel Lefrak.

Bottom Line

One of the more handsome, tall, pre-war apartment buildings along Broadway north of 96^th Street, it has Art Deco accents that complement its low-rise neighbor on the boulevard, the former Metro Theater.

Description

The building has a canopied entrance with nice sidewalk landscaping along its blank sidestreet wall. Between the second and third floors, it has a very handsomely patterned masonry beneath a scalloped bandcourse that is repeated about the 13^th and 16^th floors. The top floors have setbacks. 

The building, which has an attractive entrance surround and very nice elevator cab doors, neatly frames the low-rise Art Deco-style former Metro Theater which is just to the south of the 37-story, blue-glass apartment building known as Ariel East. 

It permits protruding window air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, a laundry room, a bicycle room and basement storage. It is also pet friendly.

Apartments

Apartments have high ceilings. 

Apartment D on the second through the 16^th floors has a 9-foot-wide foyer, a 20-foot-long living room, a dining room next to an enclosed, windowed 7-foot-long kitchen and a 15-foot-long bedroom.

Apartment 1A is a one-bedroom duplex with an open, pass-through kitchen and a double-height living room, a dining room and a bedroom on the lower level and a 21-foot-wide loft space on the upper level. 

Apartment 3E has a 15-foot-wide entrance foyer that opens onto a 23-foot-long living room with a 7-foot-long dining alcove off a 9-foot-long enclosed kitchen.  A long hall leads to two bedrooms. 

A one-bedroom-unit with an 18-foot-long living room, a 7-foot-long dining alcove and an open 8-foot-long kitchen has a wraparound terrace. 

A two-bedroom unit has an entry foyer that opens onto a 19-foot-long living room next 15-foot-long dining room with a 15-foot-long open, pass-through kitchen.  The 21-foot-long master bedroom opens onto a 13-foot-long office/den.