A welcoming, beautifully renovated, spacious, 3-4 bedroom,
1.5 bathroom apartment in the grandest Beaux Arts apartment building of Upper
Riverside Drive, the Riviera, on 157th Street and Riverside Drive in
the Audubon Park Historic District.
Formal dining room which flows gracefully into an unusually large living
room, easily separable into what was the original layout, with a study (or
bedroom) side by side with a living room that is still large. Fireplace is decorative and can be moved. New
solid oak floors with walnut and maple trim, original bifold French doors, and
oak paneling in dining room with dentil molding. A wide hallway begins at the front door, and
runs past the public spaces, to two bright large bedrooms which look out on the
Hudson River and the GWB. Kitchen (with
Bosch washer/dryer) is big enough for four people to cook together and not get
in each other's way. The room behind the
kitchen, currently a study, can also be a bedroom, or can be folded into the
kitchen as it has been in several other D-line apartments in the building.

This apartment, which is in very good, move-in condition is
in a 24-hour doorman building, with an accessible entrance, marble lobby,
live-in super, and a staff of handymen and porters. Ground-floor laundry,
package room, storage and bicycle storage. Two parking garages are underneath the
buildings across the street.

The neighborhood offers supermarkets, home-grown cafes,
restaurants and bars, and two century-old cultural institutions, the Hispanic
Society Museum which has recently been reborn as an active performance space as
well as a place to see Goya's and Velasquez paintings, and the Academy of Arts
and Letters which has similarly opened its doors for public performance. Both
are 1.5 blocks from the back door of the Riviera. One block from the #1 train,
a few more from the C train or the A depending the direction, and two buses to
midtown Manhattan, the 4 and the 5. Three blocks to Hudson River Greenway, and
the renovated tennis courts, playground and ball fields, and a bit farther to
Riverbank State Park which boasts an Olympic sized pool, track, gym, all very
reasonable Columbia/NY Presbyterian Medical Complex are in the immediate
neighborhood, and the new Columbia Manhattanville campus as well as City
College are in a slightly wider definition of the neighborhood.