Circa 1929  //  ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela  //  BUILDER: Anthony Paterno   175 West 93rd Street is a relatively understated building, clad in a buff colored brick. The stone detailing on the facade, essentially window surrounds on the lower floors, is very elegant and successful....

Circa 1925  //  ARCHITECT: Sugarman & Berger  //  BUILDER: Golding Brothers   This is brick building is a very handsome and restrained with 10 apartments per floor. The typical floor of this large building contains ten apartments, consisting of a very gracious corner Classic 7,...

ARCHITECT: George F. Pelham I like this handsome building on the south side of the street. The facade of this red brick building is embellished by a single-story, deeply rusticated stone base. The second floor windows are embellished with elaborate stone surrounds, effectively transitioning...

Circa 1925   Set on the prettiest and quietest block of W. 86th Street, this solid red-brick building is a subtle member of the reserved prewar streetscape. Reserved, classically inspired monochromatic ornamentation. There is a particularly elegant arched two-story entrance portal...

Circa 1926  // ARCHITECT: George F. Pelham   One of my UWS favorites — extremely restrained, classically-inspired, redish-brown brick facade with very minimal stone and terra cotta detail. The elaborate entrance portal (unfortunately obscured in the photo I took, shown above) is the...

Circa 1930   Located right off Central Park West on a really pretty block. This beige brick building is a restrained, yet confident example of Art Deco styling. The vertical spandrels in the facade’s central section take the eye skyward. There are no unbroken horizontal elements...

Circa 1929   Commanding a special corner where Broadway angles on its path downtown to the tip of Manhattan. You really can take in both street facades of this very handsome building. Composed of an attractive colored tan brick, with very restrained monochromatic terra cotta detailing....

Circa 1925 // ARCHITECT: Rosario Candela   This block, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive is extremely pretty. The building is very elegant, and with fantastic views of the Hudson River (as it is just one building in from Riverside Drive). Notice the arched main entrance, which...

Circa 1913 // ARCHITECT: Rouse & Goldstone   These two very understated but elegant buildings house some very large apartments. Accessed through the two separate entrances, there are only two apartments on each floor at each address. The typical floor at 161 consists of a ten-room...

Circa 1909 // ARCHITECT: Harde & Short // BUILDER: Walter Russell Bond and Realty, Co.   This building, when originally built, was high Edwardian, covered with elaborate detailing evoking a Gothic Cathedral adapted to apartment use. Most of the elaborate detail was removed many years...