New York Inn

USA / New Jersey / West New York / Eighth Avenue, 765
 hotel, 1870s construction

5-story hotel completed in the 1870s. It is faced in beige smooth-stucco. The ground floor has an entrance to the hotel on the left, recessed up a narrow set of steps, and a storefront in the center with its entrance on the right. The 2nd floor has a band of windows with three narrow, grey-painted iron pilasters dividing the single-window outer panes and the two pairs of double-windows in the middle. The three upper floors have four bays of single-windows with grey-painted stone sills. A vertical sign is mounted to the south edge of the facade, from the 2nd-4th floors, and a beige metal fire escape runs down the middle two bays. The building is crowned by a grey-painted roof parapet with a stepped peak in the middle, capped by a cornice-like molding. The south facade, above the ground-floor of the neighboring building, is a blank wall of white parged brick. The ground floor is occupied by a Subway sandwiches.
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Coordinates:   40°45'37"N   73°59'16"W
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