Turnbull & Asser

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7-story mercantile building completed in 1877. The facade is clad in limestone. The lower two floors have a 2-story, black metal-and-glass storefront recessed between the end piers; there is a narrow glass-and-metal door at each end (with a window at the 2nd floor), between which is a projecting central section with rounded corners, including curved glass panes.

The 3rd floor has a central, many-paned, segmental-arched window flanked by two pairs of stone pillars, with stone band courses above and below. An iron railing with an overlapping oval pattern front the base of the 4th floor. There are three bays of single-windows on the top four floors, with simple stone sills and lintels, and red awnings on the 4th-6th floors. The top floor is set off by a stone cornice and has iron railings across the bases of its windows, with thin, paired, engaged columns at the ends. A stone parapet marks the roof line.

The building is occupied by Turnbull & Asser, who originally occupied No. 42 just down the street, but that building was demolished in 2011 for the construction of the new 432 Park supertower, and Turnbull & Asser moved into No. 50. Turnbull & Asser is a high-end clothing store that has dressed figures such as Prince Charles, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and John Kerry.