Custom closets in Upper West Side.

The Upper West Side is where prewar buildings get tall. The full-floor and half-floor apartments at the Dakota, the Apthorp, the Belnord, the Beresford, the El Dorado and the San Remo were designed with formal libraries, lined walking closets, and the kind of double-height great rooms that don't exist elsewhere in the city. A library project on Central Park West typically runs thirty-two feet on the long wall, floor to twelve-foot ceiling, with a brass library rail and a ladder on rollers. We design the shelving on a 32-mm adjustable pin system so the household can shift as the collection grows.

On Riverside Drive the architecture is slightly different — many of the buildings have rear bedrooms with windows that face the Hudson and irregular wall depths from old steam-heat chases. These give us the chance to build dressing rooms that wrap a corner and incorporate a wide windowsill bench. The light off the river is good light to dress by.

The Upper West Side also accounts for an outsize share of our Murphy-bed projects. Apartments on the side streets between Amsterdam and Columbus are often two-bedroom flexes — a study that needs to host guests four weekends a year. A Kloset Workx wall bed designed into a wall of cabinetry turns that study into a guest room without losing the wall of books.

Most Upper West Side co-ops require service-elevator delivery from the building's east entrance on Columbus or West End. We carry COIs at the major prewar buildings and have a standing relationship with their freight elevator operators. Install windows match Upper East Side rules: 9–4 weekdays. The FDR-to-95th-Street Transverse run from the Bronx is twenty-two minutes off-peak.

Every project is milled at the Bronx workshop — a 14,000 sq ft workshop on the East River — and installed by the same crew that built it. We do not subcontract the install.