Convention Overlook, 430 West 34th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 430 West 34th Street by Carter Horsley

This white-brick, 17-story, mid-block apartment building at 430 West 34^th Street between 9^th and 10^th avenues near the Hudson Yards was erected in 1963 when this area was mostly warehouses and train yards and converted to a co-operative in 1988.  The area now is the city’s most impressive redevelopment site and includes Hudson Yards.

This building has 177 apartments.

it was designed by Hyman Isaac Feldman.

The 7-train has a station at Hudson Yards at 33^rd Street and 11^th Avenue.

Bottom Line

A typical “plain vanilla” mid-block Upper East Side apartment building plopped down on Far West 34^th Street way before that area succumbed to gargantuan development.

Description

The wide-brick building has a large entrance marquee with sidewalk landscaping and discrete air-conditioners. 

Its lobby was renovated in 2005.

Amenities

It has a full-time doorman, a landscaped roof deck, a bicycle room, a live-in superintendent and basement storage.  Cats and dogs are allowed.

Apartments

Apartment LK is a one-bedroom unit with a pass-through kitchen, a 16-foot-long living room with a 21-foot-wide deck and a 26-foot-klong garden.

Penthouse B is a one-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 20-foot-long living room that opens onto a 10-foot-long dining room next to an enclosed 9-foot-long kitchen.  The bedroom opens on to an 11-foot-wide terrace with a narrow leg along the living and dining rooms.

Apartment 17A is a one-bedroom unit with a narrow entry foyer that leads past an 11-foot-wide kitchen with a breakfast bar to a 19-foot-wide living/dining room that is next to a 22-foot-long bedroom.

Apartment 8A is a studio unit with a narrow entry foyer that leads past an enclosed, 7-foot-long kitchen to a 20-foot-long living/dining room with an 8-foot-wide alcove.