New York Gallery Building

 art museum / art gallery, commercial building

11-story commercial building completed in 1928. Designed by Buchman & Kahn, it is a through-block building different facades on 56th & 57th Street.

The north facade on 57th Street is clad in limestone above a 2-story black granite base. The entrance is at the west end, with glass double-doors below a small metal canopy and a square metal panel with bronze numbers "24", for the address. To the left is a plate-glass storefront with glass double-doors. The glass extends up to the 2nd floor show space. The upper floors have four bays of windows; at the 3rd floor they have 4-over-8 windows with wrought-iron grilles over the lower portions, and topped by carved rosettes and thin swags below curved lintels. The 4th-7th floors have simpler openings, with subtle surrounds. The 8th floor has paired, projecting piers around the windows, which are topped by round-arches with carved medallions. The piers have small stylized capitals, above which is a dentiled stone cornice surmounted by a balustrade. The 9th & 10th floors are set far back toward the middle of the lot.

The south facade on 56th Street is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story white-painted stone base. The lower two floors have banding on the piers that divide the facade into six bays, slightly wider at the ends. The entrance is in the west bay, with glass double-doors below a black awning. The other bays have storefront windows on both floors, and the 2nd floor is capped by a cornice. The 3rd floor is organized into five bay with large expanses of multi-paned windows (each 6-over-7 with small square panes and white framing). Decorative piers between the bays have somewhat Art-Deco styled capitals. The brick upper floors also have five bays, most with multi-paned windows. The center and end bays at the 4th floor have rounded iron balconettes at their bases, and are topped by stone panels with rosettes below curved stone lintels. The windows at the end bays of the 5th floor are longer than the rest, and a small stone cornice sets off the 7th floor, where the center and end bays have flat, dentiled lintels and each bay is topped by a recessed panel of balustrades. There is a setback above the 7th & 9th floors, with each setback repeating the balustraded panels of the 7th.

The lower two floors on the 56th Street side are occupied by Bread and Butter restaurant, and on the 57th Street side by Riflessi menswear. Galleries in the building include Marian Goodman, Galerie St. Etienne, Ana Tzarev, and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.