The Brookford, 315 Central Park West: Review and Ratings

Review of 315 Central Park West by Carter Horsley

This handsome pre-war apartment building is bracketed between the great Art Deco-style, twin-towered Eldorado apartment building across 91st Street and the very impressive Art Deco-style apartment building just to the north known as the Ardsley, both designed by Emery Roth.

This brown-brick, Neo-Renaissance-style apartment building 315 Central Park West was designed in 1911 by Schwartz & Gross, which also designed 101 Central Park West.

It is known as the Brookford and is also known as 1 East 91st Street.

The 12-story building has 52 rental apartments.

It is across from Central Park and five blocks north and south of subway stations and cross-town buses. The Trinity School, which is one of the finest private schools in the city, is nearby at 136 West 91st Street.

Bottom Line

A pre-war, neo-Renaissance-style, red-brick apartment building that has some decorative balconies and decorative fireplaces and some kitchens with very long rear halls. 

Description

It has an attractive lobby, several decorative balconies and some terracotta detailing and a two-story stone base beneath a brown-brick façade and beneath a partially balustrated bandcourse above the second floor.  There is another bandcourse beneath the 11^th floor and there is no cornice.

It has a canopied, two-step-up entrance and sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

It has a 24-hour doorman, a fitness center, a canopied entrance, some decorative fireplaces and balconies, sidewalk landscaping and consistent fenestration, but no garage, no garage, no roof deck, a two-step-up entrance and it permits protruding air-conditioners and pets.

Apartments

Apartments have 10-foot-high ceilings.

A four-bedroom unit has a 30-foot-wide living/dining room across a hall from a 25-foot-wide kitchen with six windows and a long rear entry hall.

Apartments E on the 3^rd through the 8^th floor are three-bedroom units with a 9-foot-long entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 30-foot-long living/dining room and in the other to a 14-foot-wide breakfast area and a 31-foot-long, open kitchen/pantry.

Another three-bedroom layout has a 13-foot-wide entry foyer that leads in one director to a 18-foot-wide living room and in the other to a 16-foot-wide dining room, an 11-foot-long pantry and a 15-foot-long, windowed kitchen.