Bring your contractor to update this great apartment to its full potential. This quiet alcove studio has the benefits of space and location and is in a full-service established coop building. Facing south onto a courtyard, it has a full-sized kitchen and a separate windowed dining area which could be converted into a small windowed bedroom. If you would like to see the same apartment stylishly renovated, which is one floor below and sold in 2014, go to listing #3365747 on Corcoran.com.  (That apartment renovation/decoration appeared in Elle Decor Magazine.)     12 East 97th Street is a well-kept prewar building with beautiful lobby.  Laundry, bike room and individually designated storage in basement. Full-time doorman. Pet friendly. Wonderful location in Manhattan's Carnegie Hill, half a block from Central Park, the beautiful East Meadow, tennis courts and the jogging path around the reservoir. Lovely historic block has St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral with its magnificent onion domes just across the street.