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51 West 86th Street: Review and Ratings
51 West 86th Street: Review and Ratings
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Carter Horsley's Building Review Carter Horsley
Dec 23, 2011

Carter's Review

This very handsome, beige-brick rental apartment building has one of the city's most attractive balconies on its fifth floor supported by 10 lions' heads.

The building has a one-story limestone base and its canopied entrance is flanked by sculptures of rams' heads and topped by a nice frieze of putti. It has very fine wrought-iron entrance doors. Rope quoins brace the building for eight stories above the entrance.

The building permits protruding air-conditioners, but has no garage, no health club and no sidewalk landscaping. It has inconsistent fenestration.

It is on a very pleasant block, a short walk from Central Park and a subway station. There is excellent cross-town bus service on this street and many attractive sidewalk caf¿s on Columbus Avenue just to the south.

Carter B. Horsley