Trump Parc East

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15-story residential building completed in 1918. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is now part of the condominium complex known as Trump Parc. The larger building (Trump Parc) is the adjoining 38-story former Barbizon Plaza Hotel that wraps around this building. Donald Trump converted the taller building in 1988 but encountered stiff tenant resistance to his conversion at this building and its conversion to a condominium was not completed until 1997.

The two buildings are similar in architectural style although this one does not have the fabulous and very flamboyant top of its taller neighbor. The condominium conversions unified the retail frontages of both buildings and their window treatments are similar. The visual effect is that they read much like one building, but have separate entrances along Central Park South. The Trump Parc East entrance is centered on the black granite ground floor, with glass double-doors and transom set in a limestone molding and flanked by limestone pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting a small cornice topped by elaborate carved ornament at the 2nd floor; this includes cornucopias overflowing with fruit, flanking a central square panel that is surmounted by a cartouche. A pair of wall lanterns framing the entry are flanked by fluted limestone pillars that extend up to gold-painted stylized capitals at the top of the 2nd floor that carry a broad entablature crowned by a cornice with a gilded band on its underside. To either side of the entry, the granite ground floor has bronze-framed storefronts windows (with glass double-doors at the western storefront). The floors above the ground level are all limestone. There are two single-windows at the 2nd floor between the fluted pillars and the central cartouche, and two more single-windows just outside of the fluted pillars. The center section of the 3rd floor has five round-arches with simple keystones, with windows in the outer ones (the middle is a blind arch). The end bays of the 2nd & 3rd floors are framed by banded piers and have paired windows, round-arched with simple keystones at the 3rd floor; there are stone spandrel panels between these windows. All of the windows have beige metal framing, like those of the larger Trump Parc building.

The 4th floor is transitional from the base, with band course on top and bottom. The lower one has a slightly projecting central section that is supported by six blocky modillions, but it is interrupted near both sides by a cut for air-conditioning vents. Of the four bays, the middle two have paired windows, and the end bays have tripartite windows; on the stone piers between each bay are carved right-angle corners forming the impression of a square.

The midsection of the north facade has tripartite windows in all four bays, with black metal vents cut below the middle bays. There are band courses below the 11th & 13th floors, and keystones above the end bays of the 10th floor. The 14th floor has large round-arched encompassing the tripartite windows, with shallow, balcony-like projections below them, and keystones topping the arches. The piers have pairs of slightly-projecting pilasters with Corinthian capitals; these likely supported an original roof cornice, but there is now a 15th-floor penthouse with larger tripartite windows and another and course marking the roof line.

The east facade on the avenue continues the line of storefronts on the black granite ground floor. Above there are six main bays. The middle two bays have narrow double-windows next to small bathroom windows, although there are merely blind openings where the windows would be at the southern bay. At the 2nd-3rd floor, which are mostly banded, the outer bays all have paired windows, round-arched at the 3rd floor. The upper floors have double-windows in the end bays and tripartite windows in the intermediate bays. The other design elements from the north facade all repeat on this elevation. At the 15th-floor penthouse, the north two bays have tripartite windows, followed by a narrow single-window, two double-windows, a 4-pane window, and a wide double-window at the south end.

This building has 81 condominium units. The ground floor is occupied by Roberto Bezjon Salon, Pret-a-Manger restaurant, and Galeries Bartoux art gallery.

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