SoHa 118, 301 West 118th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 301 West 118th Street by Carter Horsley

This very attractive, red-brick 12-story building at 301 West 118^th Street is known as SOHA 118 and has 91 residential condominium apartments. 

It is also known as 2187-9 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, and 300-302 West 119^th Street and 301 West 118^th Street. 

10 Equities LLC, of which Eytan Benjamin, Robert Ezrapour, Ken Haron and Yoav Haron are members, and Drale LLC., of which Mr. Ezrapour and Yoav Haron are principals, were the sponsors. They are all principals of Artimus whose other probjects have included Cathedral Gardens at 352 West 110^th Street, Fifth on the Park at Fifth Avenue and 119^th Street, and Susan’s Court and Manhattan Court on Manhattan Avenue between 118^th and 120^th Streets. 

Mr. Ezrapour is also the sponsor of the Lenox Court Condominium at 205 East 76^th Street, the Lenox Condominium at 400 Lenox Avenue, the Brownstone Lane Condominium at 309 West 118 Street, the Rosa Parks Condominium at 163 St. Nicholas Avenue, the Cathedral Gardens condominium at 352 Cathedral Parkway, the Academy House condominium at 24 West 45^th Street, and the Eliza Court Condominium at 2073 Eighth Avenue.  

GF55 is the architect for the project which was completed in 2006 and its other projects in Harlem include the Kalahari, the Lenox, Madison Court and 444 Manhattan Avenue.

Bottom Line

This is a very handsome, full-service condominium apartment building with many three-bedroom apartments.

Description

The building has a two-story limestone base, a few setbacks and many corner windows. 

The building has frontage of 201 feet 10 inches on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 100 feet on 118^th and 119^th Streets.  

The building has a commercial unit of 32,725 square feet on the cellar, ground and mezzanine levels and a community facility of 12,143 square feet on the lobby and third floor.  

The lobby has a Jerusalem Stone floor intersected with a “ribbon” of frosted glass and floor-to-ceiling mottled mahogany panels accent the elevators, and there are horizontal slivers of stone installed in varied lengths and surface depths on an “accent” wall.  The lobby also has cylindrical pendants, recessed ceiling fixtures and stainless steel-clad columns.

Amenities

The building has a 24-hour doorman, a live-in superintendent, a fitness center, a children’s playroom, a media room, cold storage, a laundry and a recreation room.  

The building has a landscaped common garden.

Apartments

Several apartments have private yards or balconies and many have washers and dryers. 

Apartments have four-inch-wide, variegated Brazilian cherry flooring and kitchens have white Silestone counter surfaces and dark tile flooring.  Bathrooms have Calcutta marble floors and Lagos Blue counters. 

Apartments on are floors 5 through 10 and there are three duplex penthouses. 

Apartment 10D has an entry foyer that passes a pass-through kitchen and leads to a living room with a large terrace and three bedrooms. 

Apartment 10G is a three-bedroom unit with a living room with an open kitchen and an island and a terrace.

Apartment F on the 6^th through the 9^th floors is a three-bedroom unit with a 20-foot-long living/dining room with an open kitchen.