4499 Henry Hudson Pkwy APT 7I, Bronx, NY 10471

This is a one bedroom one bathroom apartment with three normal closets and a fourth closet so huge that it has served the seller as an office space. The apartment boasts an eat-in kitchen with a washer-dryer. The dining area overlooks a sunken living room. The Building and Neighborhood: The Fountain Garden Apartments is a handsome well built and efficient house for gracious carefree living, with all modern conveniences, located in the heart of famous Riverdale, surrounded by gardens and overlooking the most beautiful section of this wonderful community, right on the Henry Hudson Parkway, at 242nd Street, New York. Fountain Garden Apartments is a distinctive and dignified house where the dweller encounters the atmosphere of subdued elegance most appealing to people who prize the noble things of life. The front door gives access to the main lobby, of ample proportions, airy and lofty of ceiling, decorated in quiet subdued appropriateness. Built on 25% of the area of a full half city block of land in one of Riverdale's choicest locations, it is right on the west side of the Henry Hudson Parkway at 242nd Street. Thirty-three thousand feet of well landscaped and planted gardens surround the building. One of the distinguishing features of it being a large circular fountain illuminated at night in changing color effects, most refreshing to the eye in warm summer weather, The location of the building is ideal from various points of view. Transportation facilities are exceptional, it is right close to all Riverdale's famous schools. Horace Mann School, Barnard, Manhattan College, The Riverdale Country School, Ethical Culture School, Mount St. Vincent College and also, P.S. 81. Most of these are within walking distance. A new public school is under construction only three blocks away. Being on the Henry Hudson Parkway proper it offers easy access to this important thoroughfare that enables fast traveling to any part of the city. Times Square can be reached in twenty minutes by car. Buses passing the door will take one to either the Broadway or the 8th Avenue subway. A jitney will take the passenger to MetroNorth at Spuyten Duyvil or Riverdale stations on the Hudson line. Within walking distance, but out of view are two separate charming shopping centers with small stores, eateries, banks, pharmacies, supermarkets banks and post offices. The Riverdale Neighborhood and Library Association offers all sorts of cultural, social and physical diversions. This Social Center has an excellent library and conducts classes in arts and crafts, ceramics and has a beautiful swimming pool. Every social activity is offered to members of this Neighborhood House, located only a few blocks from the Fountain Garden Apartments, and including in its membership the most prominent residents of this very exclusive community. Fountain Garden Apartments, being built on a promontory offers the dweller panoramic views from its windows, over the tree tops of natural wooded surroundings.