Longacre House Apartments

 apartment building, commercial building

246-foot, 26-story postmodern residential building completed in 2000. Designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, it is clad in rose and beige brick. The L-shaped tower rises from the south end of a 1-story base. The eight wide bays along the avenue are lined with storefronts, as are the two narrow and one wide bay at the east end of the south facade on 50th Street (which also include a subway entrance). To the left is a wide bay with the main entrance, flanked by two narrow bays, and a wide bay at the west end with an entrance to the underground parking garage. The piers between each bay have rose brick lined with beige brick, except for the two around the entrance, which are lined in pre-cast stone and have grey granite bases. A pre-cast stone arch is located above the recessed glass doors; at the same level all the other bays have metal sign bands separating the storefronts from metal louvers above. The top of the ground-floor bays have beige brick panels, mostly now covered by vinyl signage, capped by metal coping. The piers between these panels have 45-degree angled, projecting brick bases for metal finials that extend above the coping. The matching north facade of the base has three more storefront bays.

The tower has sections of rose brick alternating with beige brick and metal, with open corners, and is set back on each side from the base. The east facade facing the avenue has tripartite windows in the beige-brick-and-metal sections (one at the north end, two in the middle, and two at the south end (the northernmost of the two south bays have double-windows instead). Each window group has a black metal vent at the base of the middle pane (below both panes at the double-windows). The four rose-brick bays (two pairs flanking the center beige-brick bays) have double-windows with smaller vents below them. The northern two of these are recessed from the rest of the facade. Concrete floor plates cross the entire facade. The top floor has projecting, angled brick bases on the piers for metal finials at the roof line.

The south elevation has three beige-and-metal bays with tripartite windows at the west end, two in the middle and two at the east end. There are two recessed rose-brick bays with double-windows on the left, and one more on the right, which is not recessed. The south part of the west elevation has end bays of double-windows with beige-brick piers to the inside. Beginning at the 18th floor there is a second bay of double-windows on the other side of the south pier. The middle section is rose brick, with two bays - one with double-windows and one with single-windows up to the 18th floor, where it switches to single-windows in both bays, and the south bay shifts over further to the north. The set-back north part of the west elevation has double-windows at the north end, wrapping around from the corner, followed by a beige-brick pier, and two bays of wide double-windows flanked by two bays of narrower double-windows.

The east part of the north elevation has two beige-brick-and-metal bays at end end, with double-windows, and three rose-brick bays in the middle - the center one with double-windows and the other two with single-windows. The set-back west part of the north elevation has a beige-brick bay of tripartite windows at the west end, wrapping around from the corner. The rest of the surface is clad in rose brick, and the next bay has paired single-windows up to the 18th floor, then switches to tripartite windows. The next bay is opposite, with tripartite windows up to the 18th floor, then paired single-windows, and the final bay has single-windows switching to double-windows at the 18th floor.

There is a tall red-and-beige brick water tower enclosure on the roof at the intersection of the two wings of the L. The building contains 293 apartments units. The ground floor is occupied by a Bank of America branch.