200 West 70th Street: Review and Ratings
between Amsterdam Avenue & West End Avenue View Full Building Profile
This 15-story, pre-war apartment building at 200 West 70th Street was designed by George F. Pelham, one of the city’s most prolific architects whose other prominent buildings included the Fanwood at 112 East 17th Street, 81 Irving Place, 1136 Fifth Avenue, 944, 1120, 1160 and 1225 Park Avenue, 37 West 64th Street, 21 East 90th Street, and 33, 98, 300 and 400 Riverside Drive.
This beige-brick building, which is also known as 211 Amsterdam Avenue, has 229 rental apartments. It originally was the Chalfonte Hotel.
In addition to its retail spaces on Amsterdam Avenue, it also has the popular Café Luxembourg on the side-street that has an unusual awning that is large and angular at its ends and short in between over its side-walk bench.
Bottom Line
This attractive, pre-war building has a very prominent location just south of the intersection of Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues and the 72nd Street Express Subway Station and a few blocks north of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Description
The building has a handsome, roof-top watertank enclosure, a two-story rusticated limestone base and a large entrance marquee.
The third-floor windows have rope column window surrounds and decorative lunettes and the top floor windows have rope surrounds.
Amenities
The building has a doorman, a superintendent and a laundry. It permits pets.
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