Rarely available: stunning gut-renovated one bedroom with balcony and office in the heart of the Upper West Side on Riverside Drive. Right off the park, apt. 14F at 5 Riverside Drive is a true oasis, the one you will long to come home to. This is that rare apartment where no expense has been spared to maximize the brilliant light and luxurious comfort. This corner apartment gives you Southern and Eastern views, quiet, and all new everything from top to bottom including the herringbone floors, custom millwork, a beautiful decorative fireplace, marble bathroom, washer dryer, Subzero refrigerator, Viking Stove.
The details: enter through the elegantly redesigned foyer to enjoy the beautiful oversized living room with decorative fireplace, new herringbone floors, new enormous insulated double pane steel casement windows (so quiet), high ceilings, and multiple mirrors and sconces, all maximizing the brilliant light streaming in from the balcony and the southern and western windows. Through the wall concealed air conditioners preserve the wide open views. By the windows, the expansive dining area seats twelve easily and the bespoke kitchen includes Subzero refrigerator, Viking stove, built in pantry, Villeroy and Boch fixtures, and lovely custom cabinets. New custom doors lead you to the king-sized bedroom with its custom mill worked closets, cabinets, concealed radiators, and the new washer/dryer. The stunning bathroom is fully renovated with marble tile, new chrome, and porcelain fixtures, Off the living room is a separate office that opens onto the sunny balcony, with built -n cabinetry and lots of light it is a delightful place to work. Crown moldings, and all new electrical panels with added amperage complete the apartment. This kind of renovation is so unusual, it has to be seen to be believed, it is so gorgeous, bright and light (as well as extra-tidy with all the concealed storage).
5 Riverside Drive is a gorgeous full-service co-operative which includes 24-hour doorman, live-in resident manager, additional laundry, and the best location, just off the park, between 72nd and 73rd Street. Express trains nearby, brilliant restaurants, and fine shopping including Citarella, Fairway, Trader Joe's, and Bloomingdales are just minutes away. Please note: 66% financing allowed. 2.5% Flip tax paid by buyer. Pets are very welcome. Sadly, no pied-a-terres allowed.
5 Riverside Drive has a historic background, as it is one of the few prestigious classic Art Deco designs by the famous Boak and Paris architectural team, both of whom worked for Emory Roth before forming their own firm. According to the New York Times, they were "designers of some of the most inventive and distinctive Manhattan apartment buildings of the 1930's", known for "window grilles of iron with brass trim; multicolored terrazzo floors of geometric style; varicolored marble lobby fireplaces; dropped living rooms; neo-Classical details reworked in modern style; sophisticated molded plaster ceiling decoration; and elaborate iron and brass entry doors, also in modern style."
Truly worth repeating: this apartment is a true oasis, the one you long to come home to.