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336 Central Park West (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / Central Park West, 336
 Art Deco (architecture), apartment building, Egyptian Revival (architecture)

160-foot, 16-story Art-Deco/Egyptian Revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1929. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in variegated brick that gradually changes from almost deep purple at the base (where it has a grey granite water table) to golden beige at the crowning tower.

The east facade on Central Park West has five bays, with the main entrance in the center. It has Art-Deco stainless-steel-and-glass double-doors below a rounded red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The entry is framed by 3-story fluted columns of beige stone, transitioning from rounded at the base to squared at the tops. The end bays have mostly double-windows, with the middle bays having mostly tripartite windows, but there is a wide variety of window types, including some industrial-type windows of many small panes. The windows in the center bay at the 2nd & 3rd floors have rounded, fluted stone balconies between the fluted columns. Slightly-projecting brick piers separate the bays, and the ground floor has secondary entrance of grey wood-and-glass doors next to single-windows in the bays next to the main entrance. The spandrels between the 1st & 2nd floors have grids of projecting bricks, and those between the upper floors have diagonal bricks set into five panels each; black metal air-conditioning vents are cut into some of them. The reddish roof cornice above the 15th floor gently undulates, flared at each pier. There are two separate 16th-floor penthouse levels set back above this cornice, one on the east end and one on the west, with a water tank enclosure at the east end of the roof embossed with an Egyptian reed pattern and crowned by a similar cornice.

The north facade on 94th Street spans 10 bays separated by slightly-projecting piers. The eastern four have mostly double-windows (replaced by narrow tripartite windows on some floors). The next bay has triple-windows, the next one three single-windows, and the next two with much closer-spaced trios of windows. The 2nd-to-last bay has three wider-spaced single-windows, and the west end bay has paired windows. On the ground floor, the east end bay instead has three single-windows, as does the 5th bay from the east. The first closely-spaced 3-window bay has a secondary entrance on the ground floor, with a black wood-and-glass door to the right of a small window and a single-window. The next bay to the west has three wider-spaced windows than those above, and the east end bay has a brown metal service door between a small window and regular-sized single-window. The east end bay sets back above the 8th & 12th floors.

The building is U-shaped, wrapping around a light court at the south end. The front half of the west elevation is clad in the same dark brick as the main facades, while the recessed back half has beige brick. Both have several bays of single- and double-windows. The building was converted to a co-op in 1971, with 97 apartments.
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Coordinates:   40°47'25"N   73°57'58"W
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