The Greenwich, 65 West 13th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 65 West 13th Street by Carter Horsley

The Greenwich is a very handsome, 12-story building at 65 West 13^th Street that was erected in 1905 and converted to a condominium in 2001 with 67 large apartments.

 Franke Gottesegen Cox Architects was the architectural firm for the conversion.

Bottom Line

One of the handsomest pre-war buildings in Greenwich Village, The Greenwich is extremely convenient to public transportation, PS 41, the New School for Social Research, some of the area’s most attractive religious institutions, many restaurants and  Chelsea.

Description

This very attractive, pre-war building has a curved corner at 14^th Street and Seventh Avenue and arched windows on the 11^th floor.

The building has no balconies, no garage and no sidewalk landscaping.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, a roof deck, a gym, a children’s playeroom, private storage and a bicycle room.

Apartments

Some of the penthouses are duplexes with fireplaces.

Apartments have very high ceilings.

Apartment 3A is a one-bedroom unit that has a 19-foot-long living room with a 12-foot-long dining area and an open 16-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 2B is a three-bedroom unit with a 26-foot-long foyer that leads to a large open space with 14-foot ceilings that includes a 19-foot-long dining area, a 19-foot-long open kitchen with an island, a 23-foot-long living room and a 17-foot-long media room.  The apartment also has a 25-foot-long patio.

Apartment 4D is a 1,453-square-foot, one-bedroom unit with a 42-foot-long living room with an open kitchen with an island and ceiling heights of more than 13 feet.

Apartment 3D is a one-bedroom unit that has a 12-foot-wide foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long kitchen with an island that opens onto a 35-foot-long living/dining room.

Apartment 7A is a three-bedroom unit with a 41-foot-long entrance gallery that leads to a 12-foot-long sitting room, a 28-foot-long dining room and a 21-foot-wide living room.  There is an enclosed 18-foot-long kitchen and a 15-foot-wide media/family room.

Apartment 6F is a four-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-long foyer that leads to a 15-foot-long curved gallery that leads to a 16-foot-long media room, a 40-foot-long double living room that opens onto a 22-foot-long dining room with an open kitchen with an island.  The apartment also has an angled hall off the gallery that leads to a 11-foot-long gym/staff room and two bedrooms and there are two other bedrooms at the other end of the gallery.

Apartment 10BC has a 16-foot-wide gallery that leads past an enclosed, 19-foot-long kitchen to a 36-foot-long corner living room with a curved wall of windows.  There is also a 23-foot-long former dining room with a fireplace, a 19-foot-long study and a hall that leads to a circular entrance to a sitting area for the 18-foot-wide master bedroom suite.  The gallery also needs to two other bedrooms and a 13-foot-long foyer that leads to another two bedrooms and a laundry.

Penthouse A has a foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long bedroom and 45-foot-long living/dining room with a fireplace and an open kitchen with an island. Both of these rooms share a large terrace and the apartment also has two other small bedrooms.

Location

There is very good public transportation and a lot of traffic in this northern end of Greenwich Village that is very convenient to Chelsea and the Union Square districts.

 One of the city's finest public schools, P.S. 41, is two blocks south and the great Victorian Jefferson Courthouse Clocktower, the second most famous landmark in Greenwich Village after the Arch in Washington Square, is three blocks south.

 The four blocks south of this one between the Avenue of the Americas and Fifth Avenue are among the most attractive in the city. The New School for Social Research is between 12th and 13th streets and there are two very handsome churches nearby on Fifth Avenue.

 Local shopping is excellent and 13th Street between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue has many restaurants. There are several supermarkets nearby as well.