The Aurora (New York City, New York)

 skyscraper, condominiums

387-foot, 31-story postmodern residential building completed in 2003. Designed by H. Thomas O’Hara, it is cantilevered a bit over the 4-story building to the north. The facades are clad in pre-cast concrete and orange brick. The ground floor has a slighty-recessed entrance at the north end, with a revolving door between traditional steel-framed glass doors, covered by a steel marquee. To the south is a steel service door and a small metal-and-glass storefront, formerly occupied by a cleaners. Vents with horizontal louvers run across the top of the ground floor.

The 2nd-5th floors have double-windows in the south bay, paired narrow windows in the next bay, then a narrow single-window bay, and another double-window in the north bay. There are brick spandrels between floors at each bay, with brick also between the two paired narrow windows at the 2nd floor, and across the 3rd-5th floors. Metal vents are located below most of the windows. The top two floors of the base, the 6th & 7th, extend farther north, cantilevering over the neighboring building for an extra bay of double-windows.

There is a shallow setback above the 7th floor to the rest of the tower, which has two bays of paired windows in the middle of the east facade, with double-window end bays, extending up to the 24th floor. Beginning at the 25th floor the middle bays have double-windows and the end bays have recessed balconies with glass railings. The top two floors are double-height.

The north facade has five bays of double-windows and an extra double-window bay at the west end that also cantilevers over the neighboring building to the west. Both end bays have recessed balconies beginning at the 25th floor. The west facade's south half is set back from the north half. There is a double-window at the north end where its wraps around the corner. Farther south are three narrow single-window bays. The north bay changes to wider recessed balconies at the 25th floor, and the first single-window bay ends, replaced by a vertical strip of brick at the top floors. The south bay also changes to narrow recessed balconies at the 25th floor.

The south facade has three double-window bays at the west end, followed by three single-windows and another double-window, plus an extra double-window bay at the top two floors of the base.

The building contains 166 condominium units, a health club, and a roof deck.

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