302 West 86th Street: Review and Ratings
between West End Avenue & Riverside Drive View Full Building Profile
This apartment building is one of three very impressive, nearly identical, adjoining buildings on this very handsome block.
The other two are Nos. 310 and 320. All share a very ornate three-story-high entrance surround and have decorated pilasters surrounds around the windows at either end of each building on the top two floors.
This 13-story building was converted to a cooperative in 1981.
While the other two, similarly sized buildings each have 68 units, this one has only 37 reflecting the fact that many apartments were combined to make larger units. Unfortunately, this building's lobby is not the same as the others, which are among the most impressive and stunning in the city with lavishly ornate terracotta decoration in a brown glaze. This step-up lobby is only neat and modern.
This quiet block is one of the more impressive cross-blocks on the Upper West Side with several distinguished buildings.
These three buildings have a half-story granite base and a canopied entrance flanked by lanterns, but the lanterns here are not as impressive as those at the other two.
The building has a doorman and permits protruding air-conditioners, but has no concierge, no garage, no sidewalk landscaping and no health club.
It is a few steps from Riverside Park to the west and there is excellent cross-town bus service a block away to the east. There is a subway station at 86th Street and Broadway and this neighborhood has excellent shopping and restaurants and a movie complex is also close by as are several religious institutions.
Carter B. Horsley
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