617 W END Avenue #5B

JUST LISTED!! A stunning, sundrenched 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom home off a semi-private landing in an architecturally glorious full-service cooperative on the Upper West Side. Overlooking elegant prewar architecture and the treetops of West 90th Street, apartment 5B at 617 West End Avenue is a spacious and stately residence with beautiful proportions that enable a seamless conversion into a 3-bedroom home. Enter through a gracious foyer into a regal living room with high beamed ceilings overhead, handsome built-in shelving and window seats and a pair of enchanting six-over-six windows which bathe the room in natural sunlight. At your feet and throughout the home, beautiful inlaid hardwood floors create a welcoming atmosphere of comfort and refinement. Opposite the living room, a large formal double-windowed dining room draws in light from the South and is partially open to the expansive windowed kitchen with breakfast bar and a suite of stainless steel appliances, creating a graceful flow for grand entertaining. The bedroom wing occupies the western part of the home where currently two large corner bedrooms enjoy peaceful serenity from the living spaces and are pin-drop quiet from the outside. The southern bedroom suite overlooks townhouse courtyards to the South through a pair of oversized six-over-six windows, with another window facing West. It offers two huge walk-in closets easily combined into one, as well as an en-suite windowed bathroom with beautiful marble basket-weave floors, marble base molding and subway tiled walls. Across the hall is the oversized northern bedroom suite which wraps the Northwest corner of the building with a western view stretching the length of tree-lined West 90th Street to Riverside Park, a huge walk-in closet and an oversized en-suite bathroom with marble basket- weave floors, marble base molding and subway tiled walls as well. For those requiring additional bedrooms, this suite can easily be divided to create two bedrooms with a large external bathroom to be shared by both bedrooms and for guests. Kindly refer to the alternate floor plan attached to this listing inspired by another B-line home. With incredible closet and storage space throughout, apartment 5B offers a massive walk-in storage closet as well as oversized laundry closet with washer/dryer. Located on the corner of West End Avenue and 90th Street, 617 West End Avenue is a landmarked Neo-Georgian prewar cooperative built in 1924 by the renowned architects Schwartz & Gross, a prolific firm credited with building over 180 buildings in Manhattan alone. This 16-story brick building features a handsome limestone base and impeccably preserved period lobby with ornamental plaster ceilings, inlaid floors and mahogany clad interiors. 617 West End Avenue has a full-service staff, including a full-time doorman/elevator operator and live-in resident manager, and offers additional laundry room, storage assigned to each unit and a bicycle room. Pets are welcome.