137 Riverside Drive, 1-E

Elegant, quiet, and grand-scaled, two-bedroom, two-bathroom home at the Clarendon! Superbly positioned across the street from Riverside Park and near all the best of the Upper West Side. The flexible split bedroom layout allows for a nice flow for entertaining and private living. The elegant living room is incredibly spacious spanning 20 feet and opens to a spacious formal dining room that can comfortably seat 6 - 8 providing nearly 32 feet of open entertaining along with a 15' entry foyer. Generous in scale with 10 ' high ceilings, spacious rooms, and a vast entertaining expanse, the home has a townhouse like feel with impeccable full service at the Clarendon. Beautifully renovated kitchen and baths with stunning finishes and top-line appliances, as well as custom, California closets provide modern comforts blending fabulously with old-world scale and detail. The home is filled with original prewar details including meticulously maintained hardwood floors, crown and baseboard moldings, and a decorative fireplace. Each oversized bedroom has its own full en-suite bathroom and great closet space making this a very functional and flexible layout. The primary bath was gut renovated beautifully appointed with Crema Marfil stone surfaces, Grohe shower fixtures and a walk-in seamless glass shower with seating. The stunning, gut renovated, kitchen provides abundant floor-to-ceiling cabinet / pantry storage, beautiful Jerusalem stone counters, subway tile backsplash, Franke sink and Bosch stainless appliances including dishwasher, range oven and built-in microwave, as well as a Sub-Zero refrigerator.

The Clarendon, a twelve-story building is an elegant turn-of-the-century full-service cooperative with full-time doormen, a live-in resident manager, fitness room, individual storage, laundry and a bicycle room. Assessment: $237.08 /month through June 2024

137 Riverside Drive was designed by the architectural firm of Charles E. Birge for Ranald Macdonald and completed in 1907. Located on one of the prettiest and most prominent Riverside blocks, the building is well-noted as being the former home of William Randolph Hearst who once occupied the magnificent three-story palatial penthouse apartment.