The Riviera 790 Riverside Dr Unit 10D New York, NY 10032

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.