The Gotham Hotel

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22-story modernist hotel completed in 2010. Designed by Damir Sehic of C3D Architecture, the building is very narrow for its height, replacing a 19th-century townhouse on the lot. The ground floor has black polished granite piers with two sets of glass doors, below a black metal canopy with "GOTHAM" on the front in metal lettering.

Above, the outer piers are faced in dark-grey metal, with a lighter grey center pier. On either side are a French door with a transom, a window with a metal vent below it, and a slightly-narrower but full-length outer window. Light-grey metal frames the window and doors, and each floor has a narrow, grey metal balcony with glass railings.

The drama begins above the 9th floor, when what looks like a different building seems to arc upward for an additional 13 stories. This part of the façade is regimented, with a sequence of more boldly-projecting, steel-clad cantilevered balconies against an equally pale metal cladding.

The east and west elevations at the upper floors at faced in white and light-grey (toward the front) painted pre-cast concrete, with two bays of small narrow windows on the west side.

The hotel has 67 guest rooms and includes the restaurant Tenpenny.

www.thegothamhotelny.com/