OUTLOOK

What's new: There are few recent conversions in the area—not counting the twelve-story faculty-housing-and-prep-school complex Columbia is building on 110th Street and the post-doc housing that’s springing up at 103rd and Broadway. That said, you’ll find newly renovated, high-end co-ops in the Manhasset, the mansard-topped building that occupies an entire block of Broadway between 108th and 109th Streets, selling for top market prices.

Bargain hunting: To find the best deals, head east of Broadway and west of Central Park West. You can also score in the non-doorman buildings from 121st to 123rd Streets.

Prediction: This area, newly colonized by Upper West Siders escaping to the north, felt last year’s drop-off. But one-bedrooms are selling well, says Guttman. (Must be all those Columbia grads.) Riverside Drive’s big prewar buildings with views of the Hudson tend to hold their value best. Columbia’s incentives for staff to move toward Harlem may boost prices to the east.

— Profile from the March 10, 2003 cover story of New York Magazine