Victory Apartments

 skyscraper, apartment building

462-foot, 45-story postmodern residential building completed in 2002. Designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, it is clad in grey-beige brick , grey metal and glass. The tower is slightly set back from the 6-story base, which spans seven bays on Tenth Avenue (with a double-wide bay at the north end) and 15 bays on the south facade on 41st Street (with the western bay being wider, with an entrance to the underground parking garage, and ending at the 2nd floor. The main entrance is in the three bays south of the northernmost bay on the avenue, below a suspended metal canopy. The other bays on the avenue have glass-and-metal storefronts, as do the eastern bays on the south facade. The piers all have grey granite bases, and vertical stainless-steel bands at the centers, with slender, cylindrical metal light fixtures. There is a chamfered corner at the southeast, and the seven bays on the south facade between the garage entrance and storefronts have grey-beige brick infill with a pattern of recessed squares; one of the bays have a metal double service door. All of the bays at the ground floor, except for the main entrance, are topped by metal louvers. A pair of stainless-steel band courses cap the ground floor.

At the 2nd-6th floors, the five middle bays on the south facade are set-back, with windows wrapping around chamfered inner corners. The regular bays have triple-windows in metal frames, most with dark-brown metal air-conditioning vents below them. Floor plates are expresses by horizontal beige concrete bands.

The roughly-rectangular main tower portion spans 12 bays on the south sides, 13 on the north, six bays on the east, and five bays on the west. The middle bays on the east and west sides are narrower, with double-windows. The end bays windows wrap around the chamfered corners. The south facade has mostly triple-windows - the exception being the double-windows in the right bay of a 2-bay section just left of center, that is recessed from the rest of the facade, with chamfered inner corners. On the north facade there is a more even mix of triple- and double-windows, and the five western bays are set far back (three of them more deeply than the westernmost two). From afar, the most noticeable design feature is on the southeast corner, which sports a flaring façade treatment in which the masonry recedes incrementally and horizontally as it rises from about the 25th floor creating a V-shape appearance of the glass at the corner.

The top two floors of the tower are setback from its west end and are topped by a setback enclosed watertank enclosure clad in the same glass patterning of the rest of the tower. The building contains 419 apartment units. The north section of the ground floor is occupied by a portion of a CVS Pharmacy that is mostly housed in the adjoining building to the north.