HIGH CEILINGS

The late Nineteenth Century architects of Manhattan townhouses thought eleven to thirteen foot parlor floor ceiling heights were about right. In contrast, the owners of 143 West 94th Street in their two thousand nineteen renovation thought seventeen feet and twenty feet ceilings better reflected their creative family whims and made more of a statement. The owners were right and when you tour this contemporary home you too will be pleased and perhaps awed by the light and air they created.

Configured as five bedrooms with four and a half bathrooms, this four story twenty foot wide recently renovated home also has a finished cellar. The property is outside of the Upper West Side Landmark District and with an FAR of three point four four the building can be enlarged to nearly seven thousand square feet (confirm with your architect).

This house is part of a surviving row of historic townhouses on West 94th and West 95th Streets. Surprisingly the rear yards of the houses to the north on West 95th Street and the abutting houses on West 94th have had no intrusive rear extensions added which makes the expanse of these rear yards one of the most open and sun-filled oasis you will find in Manhattan.

The home is located within easy distance of several top Upper West Side private schools: Columbia Grammar on West 94th, Trinity on West 91st, Dwight on West 89th, Studio School on West 95th, and Montessori on West 96th. The subways one, two, three and B,C are less than two blocks walk. Uptown and downtown buses are half a block.

LAYOUT:

Garden
Level- Enter under the stone stoop into the Eat in Kitchen, fixtured with Sub Zero fridge, Bertazzoni four burner range, Wolf microwave, Miele dishwasher. Stainless steel countertops combine with Quartzite counters to provide crisp and clean workspace for the chef. Custom cabinets by Miralis provide enormous kitchen storage. This entire level has floor heating by a Hydronic hot water system. There is a convenient powder room on this level.

Adjacent to the Kitchen is the Dining Room with twenty foot ceiling and features a wall of glass overlooking the forty foot deep sun-filled lushly planted Garden. The Garden features a stone and plant bordered waterfall which feeds a live Koi pond.

Parlor
Level-Enter at the top of the home's brownstone stoop and you are in the loft-like thirty-one foot deep double Living Room. The eleven foot ceiling height is accented by the original plaster ceiling moldings. Each room has a fireplace with elaborate stone mantle. Adding to the beauty of this floor is the dramatic open floor cut-out giving you a twenty foot wall of glass and the overlook of the Dining Room and Garden below.

Third Floor
Three bedrooms, plenty of closets. The larger bedroom seventeen feet by nineteen feet comes with an ensuite bathroom and a separate hall bathroom services the other two bedrooms on this floor.
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