A fantastic view of the Hudson River from 404 Riverside Drive. | Amazon

A closer look at the layout and true cost of that glorious pad on Manhattan?s Upper West Side Whenever people talk about Amazon?s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which just released its third season, conversation inevitably turns to the apartment Midge lives in with her parents, Abe and Rose Weissman. The family?s sprawling prewar home in the show is set on Manhattan?s Upper West Side, more specifically in an elegant apartment building with a dramatic entrance on Riverside Drive and West 111th Street. It?s arguably the ideal uptown apartment, with fabulous views of the Hudson River, a wood-paneled library, fireplace, classic moldings, and a bedroom hallway that you could bowl down. It?s something that feels like it could exist only in series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino?s idealized 1950s universe?or does it" Just how much truth is there to the Weissmans? home"
The apartment building used for exterior shots is The Strathmore at 404 Riverside Drive, a 12-story block completed in the fall of 1909 on the corner of Riverside Drive and West 113th Street, essentially the exact location as in the show. The apartment building was designed by Schwartz & Gross, prolific architects on the New York apartment scene in early- to mid-20th century.
The original floorplan of the building housed two, 10-room apartments on each floor (there were the ?N? apartments and the ?S? apartments). Each apartment ...