Monterey Brasserie

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2-story commercial building completed in 1939. Designed by Boak & Paris, it now houses the restaurant Monterey Brasserie, and before that was Maloney & Porcelli, which was opened in 1996 as a modern interpretation of a traditional steakhouse. It was founded by Alan Stillman as first a kosher deli and then it morphed into a steakhouse.

The building has a black metal-and-glass ground floor, with the entrance near the west end, covered by a rounded red canvas canopy that extends out onto the sidewalk. The 2nd floor is faced in white-painted stone, with dark-red trim. There is a large, triparite window in the center, with slightly-angled side panes. To either side is a smaller window with many small panes. Thinly-outlined rectangular panels are painted around the various windows. A flagpole projects from above the tripartite windows, and vertical, sideways banners are suspended over the end windows, held by horizontal metal poles centered in the panels above and below. The panels above the end windows also have reliefs in an inverted U-shape, topped by seashell and flower shapes that extend up in front of the dark-red cornice at the roof line.

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