The very handsome Public School 90 at 220 West 148 Street in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem is being converted into 75 residential condominiums.
The school has been closed since 1975 and it is located between 147th and 148th Streets, Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
It was designed in Collegiate Gothic style by Charles B. J. Snyder who served as superinetendent and chief architect for New York City schools from 1891 to 1922.
The conversion is being undertaken by L & M Development Partners, whose other projects include the Kalahari at 40 West 116th Street, the Aurora at 837 Washington Avenue in The Bronx, Schaefer Landing at 450 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn and, in Manhattan, Madison Court at 1787 Madison Avenue and the Aspen at 1955 First Avenue.
Ron Norsworthy is designing the project, which will have a 24-foot-high lobby with a mezzanine reading level.
The building will have an attended lobby, a fitness center, a garden terrace, a lounge, a work studio, a media room, a bicycle room, storage lockers and a live-in superintendent.
A one-bedroom penthou8se unit with 791 square feet is priced initially at about $599,000 while a one-bedroom unit with 1,146 square feet on the first floor is priced at $595,000 and one with 1,229 square feet on the second floor is priced at $595,000.
Apartments have ceilings ranging in height from 9 to 12 feet and some have 10-foot-high windows and some will have terraces.
The building will also have about 13,500 square feet of community facility space in the lower level.
Occupancy is anticipated for early 2010.
The school has been closed since 1975 and it is located between 147th and 148th Streets, Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
It was designed in Collegiate Gothic style by Charles B. J. Snyder who served as superinetendent and chief architect for New York City schools from 1891 to 1922.
The conversion is being undertaken by L & M Development Partners, whose other projects include the Kalahari at 40 West 116th Street, the Aurora at 837 Washington Avenue in The Bronx, Schaefer Landing at 450 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn and, in Manhattan, Madison Court at 1787 Madison Avenue and the Aspen at 1955 First Avenue.
Ron Norsworthy is designing the project, which will have a 24-foot-high lobby with a mezzanine reading level.
The building will have an attended lobby, a fitness center, a garden terrace, a lounge, a work studio, a media room, a bicycle room, storage lockers and a live-in superintendent.
A one-bedroom penthou8se unit with 791 square feet is priced initially at about $599,000 while a one-bedroom unit with 1,146 square feet on the first floor is priced at $595,000 and one with 1,229 square feet on the second floor is priced at $595,000.
Apartments have ceilings ranging in height from 9 to 12 feet and some have 10-foot-high windows and some will have terraces.
The building will also have about 13,500 square feet of community facility space in the lower level.
Occupancy is anticipated for early 2010.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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