Upon entering, you're welcomed by an oversized foyer, where floor-to-ceiling windows frame the rear patio and lush backyard, flooding the home with natural light. A graceful curved staircase serves as the architectural centerpiece, leading both upstairs and to the lower level. The main living room features soaring vaulted ceilings with warm wood detailing and a wood-burning fireplace, creating a dramatic yet inviting space. The adjoining formal dining room is open and airy, making it ideal for entertaining. The spacious kitchen offers abundant cabinetry and workspace, with two convenient openings to the dining room that enhance the home's effortless flow. Just off the kitchen is a private office, perfect for working from home, studying, or pursuing creative endeavors. Completing the main level is a generous family room that can also serve as a fourth bedroom, filled with natural light and conveniently located next to a full bathroom. An attached two-car garage adds everyday convenience.
The second level features a sun-filled landing overlooking the backyard, creating an open and airy atmosphere throughout. Two bedrooms share a full hall bathroom, while the oversized primary suite offers exceptional closet space and a spacious en-suite bathroom, providing a peaceful private retreat. A west-facing second-floor patio offers an additional outdoor living space, perfect for enjoying afternoon sun and evening sunsets. The lower level provides exceptional flexibility with a large recreation or family room, an additional full bathroom, extensive storage, and endless possibilities for a home gym, media room, playroom, or guest suite.
The home presents an outstanding opportunity for its next owner to renovate and personalize a thoughtfully designed contemporary residence with exceptional bones, abundant natural light, and expansive living spaces.
Surrounded by mature landscaping and lush greenery, the property offers a peaceful setting while remaining conveniently located near Riverdale's parks, schools, shopping, restaurants, and public transportation, including Metro-North, express buses, and local bus lines. This is a rare opportunity to own and reimagine a distinctive contemporary home in one of Riverdale's most sought-after locations.
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Searching for a little bit of country that can be your home base, while still being able to take advantage of everything that NYC offers? Do you want a slower pace of living, focused on family and the great outdoors? Riverdale may be your perfect choice. Only about ten miles north of Midtown, Riverdale’s bucolic paradise feels like you have left the city entirely. You would never guess that you are still within the confines of the Bronx.
Riverdale is primarily residential with a substantial number of single-family homes and corridors of high-rise apartments. There are many large parks, and they play a major role in the lives of the residents, as they are a primary source of entertainment. Clean, safe streets make Riverdale a great place to walk or cycle. There are trees everywhere, and the air is fresh and invigorating. It is a great place to raise a family, but more and more singles and young professionals are moving into Riverdale, in search of larger, less expensive apartments, and to enjoy the parks and the remarkable views of the Hudson River and Manhattan.
While the grid layout of the rest of the city makes it easy to find your way from here to there, Riverdale chose to forego that structure, choosing instead to let the verdant streets twist and wind their way around natural obstacles in designs by Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central Park fame. Some streets are divided, with traffic in one direction being at an entirely different level than traffic headed the opposite way on the same street. This quirkiness adds a certain charm to this neighborhood.