Greystone Apartments

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150-foot, 14-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1923 as a hotel. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in grey brick above a beige-painted limestone ground floor with a high, grey granite water table. The main entrance is centered on the north facade on 91st Street, with a revolving door and a traditional glass door below a dark-grey metal and frosted glass canopy, flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters. To the right are four square window openings and a metal-and-plate-glass storefront at the west end. To the left are three square windows and a grey metal service door. A 1-story extension at the east end has a smaller, grated window and a basement entrance with a grey metal door set down several steps.

The upper floors on the north facade have ten bays of double-windows (with black metal mullions) and single-window end bays. The piers at the 2nd-3rd floors have 2-story brickwork outlines, and the 3rd-floor windows have stone sills with black metal vents cut below them. The 3rd floor is capped by a band course adorned with alternating shields and fruit garlands, above an egg-and-dart molding and ribbed molding, and below a cornice with larger egg-and-dart moldings that is interrupted at most of the bays by black metal vents. The 4th-floor windows are surrounded by thin brick outlines that are arched at the tops. The other windows have thin stone sills and brick lintels, and most also have black metal vents cut below them. A projecting stone balcony fronts the middle four bays at the 8th floor, carried on console brackets, with its front wall ornamented by shields and other Renaissance ornament.

A narrow string course underlines the 12th floor, which has brick outlines on the piers. The 13th floor is set off by a modillioned and dentiled stone cornice, and there are narrow pilasters framing the windows on the 13th-14th floors, topped by shallow arches that interweave into the roof cornice, which has projecting shells between the bays.

The ground floor along Broadway is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts. The upper floors have five middle bays of double-windows and two single-window bays at each end. The ornament all matches that established on the north facade, with a balcony fronting the center three bays at the 8th floor.

The hotel was converted to rental apartments in 2009, with 363 units. The ground floor along Broadway is occupied by Dagon restaurant, Virgil's Barbecue, Carmine's restaurant, and Embassy Florist.

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