457 West 46th Street

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5-story Art-Deco residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Harry Hurwit, it is clad in light-brown brick with a grey granite water table. There are entrances at both ends, with a glass door, sidelight, and transom in the main entrance at the east, and a black metal service door at the west. Both entrances have recessed vertical grooves on the framing piers and horizontal grooves above, extending up to the stone sills of the narrow windows at the end bays of the 2nd floor. In between is a 2-story section of white stone blocks ending in a segmental-arch at the 2nd floor. It has two square windows at the ground floor (with iron grilles), topped by two metal vents, and taller double-windows at the 2nd floor, topped by a tripartite window below the brick arch.

Seven corbels top the arch, with the center one extending up to the top of the 4th floor. The others ends below the stone sills of the 3rd floor's two middle-bay windows. Between the 3rd & 4th floor, in the middle section, is a field of brick in a scale pattern, with two other projecting corbeled bands joining the center one, and extending to where it center one ends above the 4th floor. These three vertical brick bands separate four smaller windows at the 4th floor, also with stone sills, and topped by recessed brick panels between the tops of the corbel bands. At the end bays the 3rd floor has narrower windows with stone sills, and the 4th floor has smaller windows, all with metal vents cut below. The end bays slightly project, and are capped by stone copings at the top of the 4th floor.

The top floor's only openings are double-windows at the end bays, with vents below them. The facade is topped by a metal coping and railing at the roof line.