Upper West Side

It is located on the southeast corner of Broadway at 107th Street directly across Broadway from Straus Park, the northern terminus of West End Avenue. Broadway is sharply angled at this location and the building mirrors this with (read more)

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It is the second most famous building on the Upper West Side after the Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street.

Designed as the city's largest and grandest apartment hotel for William Earle Dodge Stokes by the (read more)

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Quite welcome are its large rounded corners, a rarity still in New York. Although this tower's broad façade is along Broadway, its "showcase" façade, not surprisingly, faces south towards midtown. This façade is (read more)

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Designed by Costas Kondylis of Philip Birnbaum & Associates, this red-brick, 308-unit building is most notable for its oculi – circular openings and motifs — on its top five floors and around much of its base above the retail spaces and in the middle of a three-story, white-colored (read more)

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Not surprisingly, it was developed by William Zeckendorf Jr., and partners, who also pioneered the redevelopment of Union Square with Zeckendorf Towers and Eighth Avenue in midtown, with the World Wide Plaza complex.

The Columbia, which was designed by Liebman Williams Ellis Architects, is one of (read more)

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More importantly, from a civic standpoint, this building significantly reinforced the upgrading of Columbus Avenue, and gave the Upper West Side and important and attractive, new (unofficial) landmark.

The tower is in context (read more)

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It is close to Zabars, Ollie's, Barnes & Noble, Laytner's and a subway station.

It has a deep entrance light court with seating benches and a three-step-up entrance. It has a doorman, a live-in super, a bicyle room, washers (read more)

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It is known as The Westerly and has 53 apartments.

It is just to the east of a very similar apartment building and several doors away from the very impressive Art Deco-style St. Ann's School tower further down the block to (read more)

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It was designed by Platt Byard Dovell White, the architectural firm that recently designed such luxury apartment projects as 50 Madison Avenue and 47 East 91st Street. It was completed in 2008.

The building is on the northeast (read more)

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It is called The Gatsby House, but its fire escapes do not recall the legendary architectural splendors of the type of house that F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic hero of the North Shore of Long Island might have made one of his (read more)

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Its location on the northwest corner of Broadway at 72nd Street (in the lee of the taller Ansonia one block north) makes it highly visible from the south and its distinctive watertank enclosure (read more)

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It has 117 apartments and very nice terracotta window surrounds on its second and third floors and a prominent scalloped bandcourse aqbove the fourth floor and a smaller one beneath the 13th floor and a stringcourse below the 15th floor.

The building (read more)

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The doorman building has a five-step-up vestibule.

It has three decorative balconies on the sixth floor and one on the 11th floor.

There are string courses above the third and 12th floors.

The beige-brick building has 14 stories and in early 2009 appeared (read more)

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It is a cooperative with 89 apartments. It is known as the De Soto and also has an address of 2460 Broadway.

There used to a local subway station at this corner which is a block-and-half west of Trinity School, one (read more)

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The 10-story building occupies the northeast corner at Broadway.

The building has a two-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a big elegant lobby with a large clock over the elevators.

The building has two very deep lightcourts on 111th Street and (read more)

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The 12-story, red-brick building was erected in 1913 and designed by Charles E. Birge as the Hotel Berkley.

It was converted to a cooperative in 1982 and has 152 apartments.

The building has a full-time doorman, 9-and-a-half-foot ceilings, (read more)

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It was designed by Alexander Cooper & Partners and Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron. It has a rounded corner at 86th Street and the top six floors are set-back in two-story increments and have (read more)

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The building has a doorman and permits protruding air-conditioners. It has no garage, no health club, and no sidewalk landscaping.

It has a central Upper West Side location and there are many attractive restaurants with sidewalk cafés nearby on Columbus Avenue (read more)

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The mid-block building has considerable "light-and-air' because it is across the street from the landscaped plaza of the apartment tower on the northeast corner at Amsterdam Avenue. This building has a nice white marble lobby with a concierge stationed behind a window in the vestibule, protruding (read more)

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In contrast, this 14-story building that was erected in 1986 is relatively modest although it more (read more)

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It has a fitness center, three racquetball courts on the (read more)

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The 20-story building at 189 West 89th Street is known as the Sagamore and has a two-story limestone base the first floor of which is rusticated. It has 265 apartments.

The building has a doorman, a health club, a (read more)

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It was designed in 1901 by Clinton & Russell, the architects also of the great Apthorp apartment building three blocks to the north on Broadway and an addition was made to it in 1914 by Peabody, Wilson & Brown.

In their fine book, "The A. I. A. Guide to (read more)

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The 23-story building that occupies the west blockfront on Broadway between 94th and 95th Streets has 285 apartments.

It was developed by The (read more)

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The pre-war, beige-brick apartment houses that comprise the east blockfront on Broadway between 82nd and 83rd Street is the most prominent. The two buildings were designed by Emery Roth for Sam Minskoff.

The buildings are almost identical with the exceptions that the watertower enclosure at 222 West 83rd (read more)

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