37 Riverside Drive: Review and Ratings

Review of 37 Riverside Drive by Carter Horsley

This handsome, 16-story apartment building at 37 Riverside Drive on the southeast corner at 76^th Street was erected in 1925 and designed by Schwartz & Gross.

It was converted to co-operative in 1944 and has 33 apartments.

Bottom Line

A very attractive, pre-war building with only two apartments per floor with large and gracious floorplans.

Description

The building has a side-street entrance with a canopy and a two-story rusticated limestone base.  It has corner window surround on the 3^rd and 4^th floors and the top two floors. 

The building has quoins and a nice cornice.

It permits protruding air-conditioners.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, a basement fitness center, and a washer/dryer in the building.

It has inconsistent fenestration, no sidewalk landscaping, no garage and no roof deck.

Apartments

Penthouse B is a one-bedroom unit with a 23-foot-long living/dining area with an 11-foot-wide adjacent lounge with open onto a wrap-around terrace.  The apartment also has an 11-foot-wide pass-through kitchen.

The B apartment on the 2^nd and 3^rd floors is a four-bedroom duplex with a 19foot entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room and 16-foot-long dining room next to an 18-foot-long kitchen on the lower level and two bedrooms, a 21-foot-long family room, a 15-foot-long media room, a 9-foot-long maid’s room and a 12-foot-long kitchen and two bedrooms on the upper level.

Apartment 12A is a four-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 26-foot-long living room, a 14-foot-long dining area, a 15-foot-long kitchen and a 16-foot-long study.

Apartment 10A is a three-bedroom unit with a 19-foot-wide entry foyer that leads in one direction to a 22-foot-long living room with a fireplace and in the other to a 19-foot-long dining room next to a 20-foot-long, eat-in kitchen.

Apartment 8B is a two-bedroom unit with a 19-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room and a 15-foot-long dining room next to an 18-foot-long, eat-in kitchen.

History

The west penthouse was once owned by Robert A. Durst, a member of the Durst building family, whose wife disappeared in 1982.

An August 29, 2011 article by Diane Cardwell in The New York Times noted that the apartment was late bought by Joel S. Goor, when he was president of the building’s board and rabbi of the Metropolitan Synagogue of New York.  He put it on the market in 2004 for $3.57 million and it was brought the next year for $2.75 million by Robert and Champa Weinreb and over the next several years their alteration plans were rejected by the building’s board.