Lefcourt Manhattan Building (New York City, New York)

 office building, skyscraper

387-foot, 25-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1927. Designed by George & Edward Blum, it is clad in light-brown brick and terra-cotta above the modern glass curtain wall of the 4-story base (on the west facade, and the western bay of the south facade; the rest of the base on 39th Street has the original design at the 2nd-4th floors). The base was reclad in 2009 to a design by Moed de Armas & Shannon at the same time as the neighboring 6-story building, which was joined earlier to the main building. The curtain wall consists of aluminum smoke glass, five bays across on the avenue, including the 6-story joined section. The main entrance is in the 2nd bay from the south, recessed with glass doors and a small metal canopy. The other bays have storefronts. The south facade has four main bays with five windows at the outer bays and three at the middle bay; framing these are four narrow 1-window bays. The ground floor is lined with modernized storefronts on 39th Street, capped by a stone cornice. The 2nd-4th floors light-grey metal frames on the main-bay windows; the spandrels panels have different patterns between the 2nd & 3rd floors than those between the 3rd & 4th. The narrow windows in the narrow bays are framed by projecting stone piers with stylized capitals supporting a cornice that caps the base.

The brick upper floors continue the bay organization of the lower floors, but with evenly-sized windows. On the 5th floor the windows have stone surrounds; a patterned stone band course runs across this floor. Above, the narrow and wide bays are re-defined, with projecting piers separating the windows of the wide bays. The wide bays also have brick spandrels with four vertical bars in the brickwork, and the narrow bays have stone sills. The west facade on the avenue has the same design, but with six windows in the wide center section, flanked by a pair of single-window end bays.

The wide bays have round-arched windows at the 16th floor, with vertical stone panels above the arches and cast-stone coping, marking the first of a series of shallow setbacks. There are round-arches windows at the top of the 1st & 3rd setbacks. On the south facade, the center bay extends up another two floors before setting back, creating a projecting central tower, also with (double-height) round-arched windows at the top (the 25th floor). This tower extends up several floors past the main roof line, crowning the building with a steep-angled, 4-sided copper cupola.

The north facade is clad in brown brick with alternating bays of two and three windows. The exposed front portion of the east elevation, in front of the recessed neighboring hotel, is clad in brown brick with a bay of two windows. The ground floor is occupied by Gabby O'Hara's Pub, Broadway Clippers Barber Shop, One Step Up manufacturing, StubHub, and Cook Eatery.