690 Riverside Drive, 2-D

ALL ROOMS ON RIVERSIDE PARK! CHARM GALORE!
TWO BLOCKS FROM SUBWAY.

THE OPPORTUNITY:
You found your sun-filled dream tree-house off the Hudson, 20% below market!
This gorgeous and spacious 2BR condominium has direct views on the Hudson River and Riverside Park FROM ALL ROOMS! This renovated prewar condo residence offers grand high ceilings and open flow, with large bedrooms and abundant closet space. Pets are welcome. Live-in Super, Elevator, Common Laundry Room, 2 blocks from Subway 1, one block from efficient Bus lines.
Do not postpone your visit. This is the one and it will go extremely fast. Owners are a wonderful couple and child. They priced it for immediate attraction!

THE LOCATION:
Uptown Chelsea in the making, this booming village per excellence offers the quietude of an exclusively residential area, the light and open skies of a severely protected historic neighborhood, wild sunsets along a green stretch of the Hudson Valley, and the exciting buzz of some of the best cafes and restaurants the City has to offer. We no longer settle for Harlem, we dream of it... and at the top is... Hamilton Heights, irresistible and irreversible.
The perks of living on Riverside? A few blocks from Columbia's new Manhattanville, at the heart of all services and shopping on Broadway, at the very pulse of a trendy new restaurant at every season (ROKC for Ramen, best oysters and cocktails; Chopped Parsley for home style Japanese cooking; Pulled Noodles for authentic home made Chinese noodles; The Grange with its Jazz brunches; Chipped Cup café; Bono Trattoria; Hogshead Tavern; $2 Everything is the best breakfast in town; Sweet Chef pastry shop for the real sweet-potato pie), Fairway Market on 132nd, and to make the dream practical too, transportation only 1.5 block away takes you Midtown within 15 Minutes. Steps away are a children's playground and Riverbank State Park with its double-Olympic swimming pool for $2 entry fee!, tennis and basketball courts, ice skating rink, running track and picnic areas.
Across your windows, the Hudson River Greenway is the perfect jog, skate or bike stroll onto the romantic, uninterrupted 11 miles of stunning paths from Battery Park to the Little Red Lighthouse underneath the George Washington Bridge; enjoy newly designed piers, restaurants, and the healthiest green New Yorkers!
http://www.traillink.com/viewtrail.aspx?AcctID=6032329
http://www.nyc.gov/html/edc/pdf/greenway_mapside.pdf

FEATURES:
This Prewar Condo is lovingly tended by live in Superintendent and his wife.
Riverside Park and Hudson Views from all rooms
WIndowed Kitchen and Bathroom.
Easy accommodation can be made create a Dining Alcove off a pass-through Kitchen,
Abundant closets of which one Walk-In
New doors and hardware throughout.
Thermopane windows.
Additional Work by Seller: strip-oak floors are newly refinished to complete this renovation in style and authenticity!

MOVE RIGHT IN:
Flooring, Paint, Doors and Doorframes, are all brand new. Oversized antique tub was just reglazed and bathroom entirely renovated. Kitchen mostly new. Recent double-pane windows.

TRANSPORTATION:
Subway 1 at 145 St. Express A, B, C, D trains at 145 St and St Nichs.
Buses and cabs abound.
Car: Prime accessibility by car, as the FDR and Westside Highway are just minutes away. At such a beneficial purchase price and monthly costs, buy a car and have it parked on the block! ... And get to the Meat Packing District within 15 minutes at fluid hours!

HISTORY AND BUILDING:
Built in 1920, 690 Riverside Drive is a 6-story elevator building with 35 units, Laundry Room, live-in superintendent. Condominium conversion dates 2007.