TOWNHOUSE HORIZONTAL Offered for the first time in over 40 years, now is your unique opportunity to own a spacious 4-Bed, 3-bath apartment in The Grinnell, an outstanding pre-war building in the Historic Audubon Park district of Lower Washington Heights. Rarely available, this 10-room home provides ample space for comfortable living and entertaining in a beaucolic setting. The main entrance hallway leads to a sprawling gallery with living room, library and dining room via French doors. The hallway continues to a secluded wing of bedrooms and baths. The northeast corner primary bedroom is dazzling bright. A second spacious, northwest facing bedroom shares a bath both accessible by a connecting passageway. Another full-size bathroom serves the large, third bedroom. Two former staff rooms flank a third bathroom (missing its tub). One of the rooms may be used as a breakfast room and the other a 4th bedroom, laundry, study or home office. The windowed kitchen has access via the entrance hall or service door. There’s a butler’s pantry providing additional space for everyday sundries, dinnerware, crystal and storage. This service hall has a convenient swinging door opens to the formal dining room with its original wainscotting. Original classic pre-war details throughout include hardwood floors with contrasting inlaid borders, French doors (some with original rolled glass), crown moldings, deep baseboards, capacious closets, leaded glass transoms, and lofty 10-foot ceilings throughout (even the closets). Every room has exterior views through oversized windows – 20 total. Use your imagination to make this home your very own! Renovation is needed in the kitchen and bathrooms. Yes, washer & dryer is permitted and may be installed in various locations. Homes in The Grinnell are of dramatic scale as designed by master architects Schwartz & Gross, who gave their creation a Mediterranean-style façade and unique triangular shape that fills its own full block. Your new home includes an attended porte-cochere entryway leading to an interior planted courtyard. Two separate and beautifully restored lobbies lead to East and West wing sections, each with two elevators. Building amenities include attended 18-hour attended entry, resident Superintendent, bicycle room (free), gym (extra), storage units (extra), pets welcome. Rooftop solar panels provide a ConEdison electricity discount. The Grinnell is a professionally managed HDFC co-op (high income restrictions apply) with a very involved and skilled Board focused on keeping exceptionally low maintenance to make your monthly investment affordable. The Grinnell stands out at twice the value of comparable sized pre-war apartments elsewhere. Apartment: - original classic details - crown moldings - deep baseboards - hardwood floors, inlaid borders - French doors - capacious closets - leaded glass transoms - 10-foot ceilings - Splendid roof deck with 360 views of the cityscape and Hudson. - washer/dryer permitted - Over 2,500 sf Building: - Only 83 units, 9 Floors, triangular-shaped w/ center courtyard - 24/7 On-site staff, 18-hour attended entry - resident superintendent - bicycle room (free) - gym (extra) - storage units (extra) - central laundry (W/D allowed in apt.) - spacious roof-deck with spectacular Hudson, GWB and city views - pet friendly - Solar panels provide ConEd electric discount - A/94 Building Energy Efficiency Rating The Grinnell Audubon Park area and Washington Heights environs are ideally suited for today’s varied lifestyles. Stroll along winding streets past grand pre-war buildings to Riverside Park and the Hudson River Greenway. Swim, sport & play at Riverbank State Park, shop at Super Foodtown, international bodegas & seasonal local greenmarkets, or dine at one of the new multi-cuisine restaurants along Broadway. You’ll be ideally situated between Columbia University’s burgeoning Manhattanville campus and world-class NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical