Berkeley House (New York City, New York)

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193-foot, 21-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1942. Designed by Hyman Isaac Feldman, it is clad in tan-orange brick above a 2-story limestone base with a red granite water table The facade is organized into seven bays. The central main entrance has glass double-doors framed in black granite and covered by a metal canopy. To the west of the entry are three double-windows with a metal service door inserted between the outer two. To the east is a double-window, a metal service door, two single-windows, and a basement entrance with a metal gate at the end. A horizontally-ribbed band course tops the ground floor. The 2nd floor has vertically-ribbed piers separating the outer bays. The end bays have double-windows, and the center bay has smaller, narrow paired windows, while the other four bays have tripartite windows, all with silver metal framing. The bays second from the ends are set lower than the rest, an arrangement that continues on the upper floors. At the 2nd floor these bays are topped by stone panels with Greek fret-motifs.

The upper floors have the same arrangement of windows, slightly-projecting brick piers separating the outer bays. Silver metal air-conditioning vents have been cut below each window bay except for the center one. The two outer bays on each side set back above the 16th floor, with metal railings fronting the terraces behind. The three middle bays converge inward into two bays of tripartite windows on the 17th-19th floors, with a recessed bay of tripartite windows on either side. There is another setback above the 19th floor, and one more above the 20th to the smaller penthouse level, which has floor-to-ceiling windows. Atop the rear of the penthouse is a brick-clad water tower enclosure.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1980, with 100 apartments.