Daily Mirror Building (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
New York City, New York /
East 45th Street, 235
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
office building, Art Deco (architecture), 1929_construction, parking
209-foot, 17-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1929. Designed by Emery Roth as the headquarters of the Daily Mirror newspaper, it is now occupied by the A&E television network. It is clad in brown brick above a 3-story base of beige-painted brick and a stone ground floor. The facade is nine bays wide, with the main entrance in the 2nd-from-west bay, with one set of glass double-doors and a revolving door below a glass canopy, topped by a triple-window at the 2nd floor. The westernmost bay has a double-height, stainless-steel-framed triple-window; the stone cladding of the ground floor extends up through the 2nd floor at the two western bays. The next two bays to the east are recessed and the ground floor and have beige stone panel cladding, with a white metal service door in the eastern one. The next two bays have wide garage door openings to the underground parking garage, while the following bay is also recessed with a white metal service door. The 2nd-from-easternmost bay has a double-height opening with a metal roll-down gate, and the far east bay has a service entrance with multiple doors.
The brick piers project slightly at the 2nd & 3rd floors. The five middle bays at the 2nd floor have small, square openings with metal louvers framed in white stone. Thin intermediate brick piers rise from the tops of these to divide the 3rd-floor bays into paired, square windows with blue metal frames. There are limestone spandrels with geometric patterns and blue-colored highlights above and below the 3rd-floor windows, and a simple stone band course caps the base.
The upper floors also have square window openings, but with 2-over-2 panes instead of single plate-glass panes; the framing is also blue metal. The middle bays set back above the 8th floor, with the end bays (and outside half of the next bays, with single-windows) extending up to the 10th floor before setting back, creating end pavilions The inner half of the next-to-end bays are angled back to the further setback middle wall. The piers have stylized capitals extending just above the first setback, and the other setbacks have stone copings.
There are additional setbacks across the full facade above the 12th, 14th, & 16th floors. Above the end bays' first setback, they have three single-windows, and the angled side wall has a 2-over-2 square window. Above the main roof line there are rooftop penthouses at the center, east, and west. The east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick with a bay of single-windows near the front, beginning at the 6th floor and ending at the 12th-floor setback.
The rear, north-facing facade is clad in red brick (painted brighter red at the top three floors. There are full-floor setbacks matching those on the south facade. The middle bays have pairs of 2-over-2 square windows with blue metal frames; the west bay has pairs of single-windows, and the east bay has one set of 2-over-2 windows at its west half. The east half is recessed and has projecting concrete balconies with metal railings; these extend across the full east bay at the top three floors.
The brick piers project slightly at the 2nd & 3rd floors. The five middle bays at the 2nd floor have small, square openings with metal louvers framed in white stone. Thin intermediate brick piers rise from the tops of these to divide the 3rd-floor bays into paired, square windows with blue metal frames. There are limestone spandrels with geometric patterns and blue-colored highlights above and below the 3rd-floor windows, and a simple stone band course caps the base.
The upper floors also have square window openings, but with 2-over-2 panes instead of single plate-glass panes; the framing is also blue metal. The middle bays set back above the 8th floor, with the end bays (and outside half of the next bays, with single-windows) extending up to the 10th floor before setting back, creating end pavilions The inner half of the next-to-end bays are angled back to the further setback middle wall. The piers have stylized capitals extending just above the first setback, and the other setbacks have stone copings.
There are additional setbacks across the full facade above the 12th, 14th, & 16th floors. Above the end bays' first setback, they have three single-windows, and the angled side wall has a 2-over-2 square window. Above the main roof line there are rooftop penthouses at the center, east, and west. The east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick with a bay of single-windows near the front, beginning at the 6th floor and ending at the 12th-floor setback.
The rear, north-facing facade is clad in red brick (painted brighter red at the top three floors. There are full-floor setbacks matching those on the south facade. The middle bays have pairs of 2-over-2 square windows with blue metal frames; the west bay has pairs of single-windows, and the east bay has one set of 2-over-2 windows at its west half. The east half is recessed and has projecting concrete balconies with metal railings; these extend across the full east bay at the top three floors.
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Coordinates: 40°45'8"N 73°58'16"W
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