234 West 138th Street
$2,995,000
($611 per ft2)
| 5 beds, 3 baths | Approx. 4,900 ft2
380 days on Market
Key Details
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Listed: Apr 21, 2023Days on Market: 380Building Type: TownhouseNeighborhood: Harlem (Manhattan)
Monthly Real Estate Taxes:
$757
Total Taxes & Fees:
$757
($0.15/ft2)
Est. Monthly Mortgage:
$16,573
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Total Est. Monthly Carrying Cost:
$17,330
($3.54/ft2)
Note: the above is based on a down payment of 20% ($599,000),
which is the minimum amount permitted by the building.
Insider Highlights
- Spacious and Elegant Interior: The expansive property boasts 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and approximately 4,900 sq ft of space. It features a formal dining room, living room, library, eat-in-kitchen, windowed home office, kitchenette, and a quiet garden.
- Exceptional Features: The townhouse includes six fireplaces, exceptional storage space, and private parking. The parlor floor has 11-foot high ceilings, original 19th-century design elements, and a majestic staircase.
- Historic and Prestigious Location: This Georgian Revival-style townhouse is located in the grandest section of Striver’s Row in Harlem, a neighborhood with a rich history and unique architectural features. The property was previously owned by renowned publisher and movie producer, Jenette Kahn.
- Versatile Layout: The garden level includes a modern kitchen, separate cocktail area, formal dining room, and access to a private garden. The third floor includes a primary suite with a sky-lit bathroom, a second bedroom, and a windowed home office. The fourth floor has three additional bedrooms, a kitchenette, and a bathroom.
- Additional Space: The basement provides an additional 1,350 sq ft of private storage space. The pre-war townhouse, built in 1899, has only 2 apartments across 3 floors.
- Apartment Amenities: The apartment amenities include a terrace, in-unit washer/dryer, and a garden.
Description
234 West 138th is a rarely-available Georgian Revival-style townhouse in the grandest section of historic Striver’s Row. Long the artfully curated home of trailblazing publisher Jenette Kahn, who helmed DC Comics and MAD Magazine for over 26 years and is now a movie producer renowned for films like Clint Eastwood’s GRAN TORINO. This expansive property features five bedrooms, formal dining room, living room, library, eat-in-kitchen, windowed home office, kitchenette, quiet garden, six fireplaces, exceptional space for storage, and private parking.
Parlor Floor The impressive L-shaped stoop of brownstone and black ironwork leads to the grand Parlor floor. A perfect stage for entertaining, it boasts 11-foot high ceilings, a well-proportioned living room, gallery, and library. It retains much of the original and elegant 19th century design with quarter-sawn oak wainscoting, three fireplaces and a majestic staircase that cascades into the central gallery.
Garden Level Stairs from the gallery lead down to the garden floor where you’re transported to a light and airy kitchen with clean modern lines. The full-width kitchen boasts a custom-designed island, stainless steel cabinetry, and colorfully executed breakfast banquette. Separate cocktail area is framed by a playful illuminated wall of ascending "champagne" bubbles.
Adjacent formal dining room is itself a work of art with hardwood floor painted in a marble tromp l’oeil, a decorative coffered ceiling installation, and sculptural wood-burning fireplace. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors open from the kitchen to the private garden with its own mature Japanese Yoschino Cherry tree. Double doors connect to the rear carriage lane where there is a private outdoor parking space behind the house. Third Floor The third floor includes an expansive primary suite with sky-lit five-piece bathroom.
A south-lit second bedroom, windowed home office, and two fireplaces complete the floor. Fourth Floor An additional three bedrooms frame the sunny and bright top floor. A central light-way allows for additional windows in the kitchenette and bathroom, and a large skylight crowns the home’s grand staircase.
Basement A generous 1,350 sq.ft. of additional private space for storage and home mechanicals. Neighborhood Striver’s Row was completed in 1893 as a thoughtfully planned townhouse neighborhood. Originally called King’s Court after its developer David King, the two blocks are made up of three stylistically-distinct sections designed by Stanford White, Bruce Price and Clarence Luce, and James Brown Lord. The southern-most Lord Houses are the widest at over 21’.
Their facades feature fine stonework detail and a handsomely varied color palette with deep brownstone and crimson brick masonry, black ironwork at street-level, and green-hued cornices above. Strivers Row’s rear carriage alleyways, a townhouse amenity typically found in pre-war sections of cities like London and Washington D.C., are almost wholly unique in Manhattan and additionally distinguish these two historic blocks.
Parlor Floor The impressive L-shaped stoop of brownstone and black ironwork leads to the grand Parlor floor. A perfect stage for entertaining, it boasts 11-foot high ceilings, a well-proportioned living room, gallery, and library. It retains much of the original and elegant 19th century design with quarter-sawn oak wainscoting, three fireplaces and a majestic staircase that cascades into the central gallery.
Garden Level Stairs from the gallery lead down to the garden floor where you’re transported to a light and airy kitchen with clean modern lines. The full-width kitchen boasts a custom-designed island, stainless steel cabinetry, and colorfully executed breakfast banquette. Separate cocktail area is framed by a playful illuminated wall of ascending "champagne" bubbles.
Adjacent formal dining room is itself a work of art with hardwood floor painted in a marble tromp l’oeil, a decorative coffered ceiling installation, and sculptural wood-burning fireplace. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors open from the kitchen to the private garden with its own mature Japanese Yoschino Cherry tree. Double doors connect to the rear carriage lane where there is a private outdoor parking space behind the house. Third Floor The third floor includes an expansive primary suite with sky-lit five-piece bathroom.
A south-lit second bedroom, windowed home office, and two fireplaces complete the floor. Fourth Floor An additional three bedrooms frame the sunny and bright top floor. A central light-way allows for additional windows in the kitchenette and bathroom, and a large skylight crowns the home’s grand staircase.
Basement A generous 1,350 sq.ft. of additional private space for storage and home mechanicals. Neighborhood Striver’s Row was completed in 1893 as a thoughtfully planned townhouse neighborhood. Originally called King’s Court after its developer David King, the two blocks are made up of three stylistically-distinct sections designed by Stanford White, Bruce Price and Clarence Luce, and James Brown Lord. The southern-most Lord Houses are the widest at over 21’.
Their facades feature fine stonework detail and a handsomely varied color palette with deep brownstone and crimson brick masonry, black ironwork at street-level, and green-hued cornices above. Strivers Row’s rear carriage alleyways, a townhouse amenity typically found in pre-war sections of cities like London and Washington D.C., are almost wholly unique in Manhattan and additionally distinguish these two historic blocks.
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Building Amenities
- Pre War
Listing courtesy of
Sothebys International Realty
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