230 East 48th Street (New York City, New York)

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10-story residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in dark-red brick above a 2-story white marble base. The facade is seven bays wide, with a central, round-arched entrance. It has glass doors and a rounded, red canvas canopy extending out onto the sidewalk. The entry is framed by Ionic marble pillars supporting an entablature with a frieze topped by a modillioned triangular pediment. To either side of and above the entrance are bays of paired windows with projecting sills. The ground-floor windows have iron grilles, and one of the pair is replaced by a recessed door, down a couple steps, in the bay directly east of the main entrance, and in the two westernmost bays. The westernmost door is larger. The base is capped by a stone cornice.

The upper floors have paired windows in the three middle bays, wide 3-over-2 windows in the next bays, and square 2-over-2 windows in the end bays, all with stone sills. The 3-over-2 window bays are framed by projecting brick quoins that run up through the 8th floor, where a stone cornice sets off the top two floors.

The top floors have double-windows in all four of the outer bays, with the 2nd-from-end bays clad in white marble and framed by pairs of flat piers with stylized capitals. The other windows have brick lintels, and in each bay the two floors are separated by stone spandrels with swags. The roof line is marked by a modillioned stone cornice.

The side elevations are also brick, each with one bay of single-windows near the front and additional windows at the rear.The building contains 62 apartment units.