522 W 153rd St Apartments

Very comfortable, renovated two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of an 1886 owner-occupied (husband, wife, & adult daughter live on first floor) three-family Hamilton Heights townhouse. Great, eat-in windowed kitchen, den/living room, two bedrooms (one large, one smaller), great closet space, full bathroom with bathtub/shower, plus washer & dryer in unit. Easy commute to Columbia University, City College, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital - and the rest of Manhattan - A,B,C, D & 1 subways close by, many buses, Zipcar around the corner, Citi Bike on the corner, Henry Hudson Parkway or Major Deegan Expressway a couple of minutes away. Rapidly evolving but still old-school neighborhood - lots of markets, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops - old and new. "Ancient history": Uptown Trinity Cemetery, Morris Jumel Mansion, Hamilton Grange (Alexander Hamilton's house, now a museum). “Art”: Audubon Mural Project - giant birds and the like on the sides of buildings everywhere - H*spanic Society Art Museum (Goya, El Greco, Sorolla) - driftwood sculptures on banks of Hudson River. “Dining”: Bono, Harlem Public, At the Wallace, River Thai, Taqueria San Pedro, etc. “Markets”: C-Town, Super Food Town, Key Foods, and more. With great outdoor space at Riverbank State Park (running track, pool and more), Manhattan Greenway (with a fun walk to the "Little Red Lighthouse" under the GW Bridge), Riverside Park, all a short walk away.