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1909 Shore View 448 Riverside Drive
Located in the Morningside Heights Historic District designated 21 February 2017
NB 710-1909
Riverside Drive, east side, 107.6 n West 116th Street
two 12-sty brick and stone apartments, 58.9×99.1
COST:
$600,000
OWNER:
Paterno Bros., Inc, 510 West 114th st; Joseph Paterno, president; Charles V. Paterno, secretary and treasurer
ARCHITECT:
Schwartz & Gross, 347 5th [Fifth] av
ADDRESS IN REAL ESTATE RECORD:
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, e s, 107.6 n 116th st
448 Riverside Drive ( Shore View )
Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 1990, Lot 64
Date(s): 1909-10 (NB 710-1909)
Architect(s) / Builder(s): Schwartz & Gross
Owner(s) / Developer(s): Paterno Bros.
Type: Apartment building
Style(s): Renaissance Revival
Stories: 12
Material(s): Brick; limestone
Status: Contributing
History, Significance and Notable Characteristics
The Shore View is a 12-story Renaissance Revival style apartment house, one of a pair designed by Schwartz & Gross and built in 1909 by the Paterno Brothers, who were prolific apartment house builders in Morningside Heights between 1898 and 1924. The brick, limestone, and terracotta building has all the hallmarks of the Renaissance Revival style, including its three-story limestone base, central segmental-arched entrance with carved floral enframements, brick window enframements with decorative keystones, bracketed balconettes at upper stories, terracotta and molded stone transitional cornices, decorative spandrel panels, and an elaborate terracotta modillioned cornice. Walter S. Fisher, President of Carl Fisher Music from 1946-1960s, resided at 448 Riverside Drive at the time of the 1920 census.
Alterations
Riverside Drive Facade: Historic wrought-iron-and-glass awning removed from above main
entrance; two non-historic bronze address plaques flank entrance; multiple windows replaced; non-historic stone planters at stoop walls; non-historic metal security grilles at basement and multiple first-story windows
Site
Areaways flank the central entrance; sunken northern areaway with stone stairs, stone curb and wrought-iron fencing and newel posts; southern areaway with planting bed, stone curb and wrought-iron fencing and newel posts; siamese stand pipe at northern areaway
Sidewalk / Curb Materials
Concrete sidewalk and metal curb
References
U.S. Census records, 1920
(source)
Living It Up (published 1984) page 314: SHORE VIEW, 448 Riverside Drive: A 12-story tan-brick building; circa 1900. The “shore” is that of the Hudson, which the building faces.
From Allan Chin on the Lost New York Facebook group: “In the late 80s I lived at 448 RSD (now I know it has a name!) and was and I think still is Columbia housing. The late Columbia professor Edward Said was my neighbor, and NYS state senator Franz Leichter lived upstairs. Prof. Said always wore his green loden coat in the winter and the Leichters had a golden retriever! Through the back door I always heard Prof. Said arguing with somebody on the phone in Arabic! 
The regular security guard downstairs was a lovely older Haitian gentleman who always helped me with my French! I worked at Columbia Law School and was also studying Italian, so I was often at Casa Italiana.”
