NYPD Midtown Precinct South (New York City, New York)

 police station, Modern (architecture)

3-story Modernist police station completed in 1968. Designed by Frederick G. Frost Jr. & Associates, it is clad spans through the block to 36th Street to a smaller 1-story frontage, connected via a narrow middle section. Both main facades are clad in dark-grey brick and beige, almost-yellow concrete.

The south facade on 35th Street has a central entrance with recessed glass double-doors, sidelights, and transom atop three wide, low steps, and covered by a shallow concrete projection. It spans four bays of single-windows across the upper floors, and there are eight more bays on either side, for a total of 20. Vertical concrete bands organize the bays into groups of four, and the piers within each group are each bisected by a vertical groove on the lower two floors. Concrete spandrel panels separate the two lower floors in each bay. The top floor has projecting brick borders around each window, with concrete detailing at the bases. The roof line is formed by a very broad, projecting concrete band with a horizontal groove at the top.

The north part of the on 35th Street is only one story tall, and is faced in concrete, with narrow brick end piers, and five dark-blue garage doors.

There is a walkway around both sides of the building, and the side elevations of the south section have 18 bays like those on the south facade.

Midtown Precinct South is primarily a commercial and entertainment oriented precinct. It has a small residential community composed of various ethnic and religious groups. The southern zone of the precinct is primarily residential and contains the Korean entertainment area, the Manhattan Mall Plaza and other commercial stores and loft buildings.

There is a strip of hotels along 7th Avenue across from Penn Station. There is a residential strip from 8th to 9th Avenue. The Garment District is the middle section of the precinct and runs from 34th to 40th St., Madison to 9th Ave. This area also contains many jewelry manufacturing locations. The primary enterprise is entertainment establishments consisting of commercial offices and hotels, the new 42nd Street, Grand Central Terminal and the Met Life Building.

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