Description

Elegant Upper West Side living awaits in this expansive three-bedroom, three-bathroom residence featuring a desirable Classic 7 layout and beautifully maintained prewar details in a handsome historic cooperative. Move right in or bring your contractor and create the West End Avenue showplace of your dreams.

Inside this inviting home, 12-foot-tall coved ceilings soar above inlaid oak floors, oversized windows and classic millwork, including built-ins, bold casings and tall baseboards. A grand foyer and entry gallery flanked by a walk-in closet usher you into an oversized living room offering a generous footprint for seating and dining areas alongside a wide expanse of east-facing windows. Across the gallery, a windowed formal dining room encircled by dentil molding is equally ideal as a den, library or family room. Ahead, the windowed eat-in kitchen boasts a separate service entrance, a breakfast nook, full-size appliances, and rows of cabinetry and shelving.

A separate bedroom wing introduces the primary bedroom, where you'll find king-size proportions, two roomy closets, an adjacent full bathroom and linen closet. Close this space off to easily create a private primary suite. A secondary suite in this wing offers its own large closet and windowed bathroom. Off the kitchen, the classic maid's room is perfect for a guest room or home office with an attached bath. A deeded storage unit, newer washer-dryer and prepped for central air installation add comfort and convenience to this sophisticated uptown sanctuary.

Built in 1910 by Gaetan Ajello for the Paterno Brothers, 895 West End Avenue is a Renaissance Revival palazzo-style building featuring a brick and limestone fa ade decorated with iron balconettes and elaborate stone ornamentation. Converted to cooperative use in 1983, the building offers today's residents excellent financials, a stunning marble lobby with Tiffany glass, part-time doorman service, a live-in superintendent, a package room, laundry, resident storage, a bike room and daily trash/recycling pickup on each floor. Pets, pieds- -terre, subletting, co-purchasing, gifting, guarantors, in-unit washer-dryers, trusts, and 20% financing are allowed with board approval.

Located within the Riverside-West End Historic District, this fine home is just one block from Riverside Park's gorgeous waterfront outdoor space and only five blocks from Central Park. Fantastic shopping, dining and nightlife venues line the nearby blocks, and Columbus Square's Whole Foods, Target and HomeGoods are less than a half-mile from your door. Proximity to Columbia University, Barnard College and The City College of New York round out this lovely neighborhood, while an abundance of transportation options - including 1/2/3, B and C trains, excellent bus service, CitiBikes and the West Side Highway - put the rest of the city within easy reach.