Morningside Heights Apartments

Cathedral Parkway is an impressive cross-street that occupies part of West 110th Street near the Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine nearby to the north.

This mid-block, 9-story building of 1909 is its finest structure even though it has long since been overshadowed by taller pre-war apartment buildings.

What makes it so fine, of course, are its wonderful "grotesques," or non-waterspouting (read more)

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This attractive, 7-story, white-brick post-war apartment tower has 82 cooperative apartments.

The building, which is at 108th Street two blocks south of a subway station, is close to Riverside Park and not far south of Columbia University.

It has a one-story gray granite, base, fire escapes and consistent fenestration. There is good local shopping.

The building has no (read more)

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This handsome, red-brick, 11-story cooperative apartment building was designed as an 8-story building with a cornice in 1899 by Joseph Wolf and two years later was enlarged three stories with a mansard roof designed by Janes & Leo.

The building has 10-foot-high ceilings, base moldings, window well moldings, arched entryways and bay windows. Many of the larger apartments have washer-dryers. (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Manhasset 300 West 109th Street

In September, 2006, The Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine entered into a 99-year lease with Avalon Bay Communities to build a 20-story, 296-unit residential rental building on the southeast corner of its property at Morningside Drive and Cathedral Parkway (West 110th Street).

The building, which is known as Avalon Morningside, was designed by R. M. Kliment & Francis Halsband (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Avalon Morningside Park 1 Morningside Avenue

This pre-war rental apartment building looks like one of Lower Manhattan's distinguished, old office buildings with its two-story colonnade over a three-story limestone base, arched decorative panels above the windows on the ground floor and Colonial-style pediment on its roof.

Even more striking is its narrow, three-window width. Only the financial barons of Wall Street, one is tempted to think, (read more)

View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at The Whitehall 250 West 100th Street