The Cliff Haven at 417 Riverside Drive

The Cliff Haven

417 Riverside Drive

Southeast corner at 114th Street

By Carter B. Horsley

The Cliff Haven, a handsome, 13-story cooperative building, was built in 1918, designed by Denby and Nute, and has 76 units. The brown-brick building, which has fine views of Riverside Park and the Hudson River, has a 1-story rusticated limestone base, and a step-up entrance with no canopy flanked by five-globe lantern stanchions and a deep moat.

Entrance

The building has a beautiful marble lobby with a terrazzo floor, a doorman, a live-in superintendent, and a bicycle room.
It has no sidewalk landscaping, no health club, no balconies, no roof deck, and no garage.
It is located on one of the nicest architectural stretches of Riverside Drive and the Columbia University/Morningside Heights neighborhood is lively with good retail. There are many important institutional and religious properties in the vicinity.
There is good bus service on Riverside Drive and Broadway and a subway station on Broadway at 116th Street.

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