The Centra (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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144-foot, 14-story modernist residential building completed in 1964. Designed by Horace Ginsbern & Associates, and formerly known as Stonehenge Plaza and then The Indigo, it is clad mostly in beige brick, although the three middle piers (interrupted by the horizontal brick spandrels) are red brick, above a ground floor with storefronts of stone, metal, and glass. The facade has four wide bays in the middle, with two narrower end bays on each side. The main entrance was remodeled in 2016, with glass doors framed by white and silver metal, down a couple steps, and covered by a glass canopy. The end bays have tripartite windows, and the middle bays have window bands of five panes, the center one being wider. Each bay also has an air-conditioning vent below it.

The end bays and the outer two panes of the outer middle bays set back above the 11th floor, where angled side walls lead back to the recessed facade ends. The two outer red brick piers change to beige above the 11th floor, but the center pier remains red up to the top floor. There are additional setbacks at the ends above the 13th floor; each setback is marked by a metal railing.

The building contains 164 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Pink Blossom Nail & Spa. The far west end of the ground floor has an entrance to the underground parking garage, flanked by two small, metal service doors.