Joyce Manor

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91-foot, 9-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1930. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in red brick. There is a high, grey granite water table, and grey stone quoins lining the edges of the lower two floors. The central entrance has glass-and-metal double-doors between fluted pilasters and below an entablature with dentils and a rounded pediment broken by an urn that ascends into the 2nd floor. A rounded, navy-blue canvas canopy extends out from over the doors onto the sidewalk. On either side of the entrance is a bay of double-windows, and a bay of paired windows, with iron grilles. A black metal service door is tucked into the east end of the ground floor.

Above the ground floor there are four bays of triple-windows with stone sills. They have have black iron mullions, overlaid on the 2nd & 3rd floors by slender, fluted colonnettes. The 3rd floor, set off by a broad stone cornice below and a thin band course above, has full stone surrounds at the window bays, decorated by small rosettes above the colonnettes and a central rosette above a garland at the center. The other floors have brick lintels.

The 8th floor has curved, projecting, iron Juliet balconies, and the 9th floor is set off by a band course and has square panels outlined in brick at the piers between each bay. A beige frieze with alternating rosettes and elongated lozenges underlines the bracketed, dark-green metal roof cornice that crowns the facade.

The building contains 35 apartments.

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