1214 Broadway (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / Broadway, 1214
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4-story Art-Deco mercantile building completed in 1929. Designed by William J. Hohauser as a stores, showrooms, offices and manufacturing building, it is clad in tan brick above the rows of modernized storefronts lining the ground floor. The northwest corner is chamfered, although the cornice above the ground floor extends to a point at this corner. The Broadway facade has two bays of tripartite windows around a narrow single-window bay in the center; the corner bay is one window wide, and the 30th Street facade has seven bays of tripartite windows in black iron frames.

Between the slightly-projecting piers are spandrels with geometric brickwork and terra-cotta panels with shields at the outer spandrel in each bay. At the top of the facades the piers have stone Art-Deco ornament with points rising above the roof line, and there is raised, geometric patterns in the brickwork above the windows, with small stone shields in the center of alternating bays on the north elevation, topped by rounded finials at the roof line. Between the piers, the roof line is capped by a stone coping, which also runs over the rounded finials.

The south elevation is clad in red-painted stucco, with four bays of double-windows. The ground floor is occupied by P&K Jewelry, Jewelry in Trend, Nomad Shoppe, One Nail Studio, Blank Street Coffee, Nomadworks, Softebite ice cream, Gold Oro jewelry, and Jewel Thief bar.
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Coordinates:   40°44'47"N   73°59'17"W

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