Hurley's Saloon

 restaurant, bar, commercial building

5-story mercantile building originally completed as two separate structures in the late 1800s. They were later joined, with renovations in 2000 and again in 2011. The first three floors are occupied by Hurley's Saloon, who moved here in 2000. Previously the building housed an Army-Navy store with a synagogue on an upper floor. Originally opened in 1892 on Sixth Avenue and 49th Street, Hurley’s Saloon is considered one of the oldest restaurants in New York City, and has been serving its traditional Irish pub food for over one hundred years.

The building now has a unified 2-story base of smooth-stucco and fluted cast-iron piers, painted light-tan with white trim. The ground floor has two main entrances, both with black, rounded canvas canopies extending out over the sidewalk. A smaller central door leads to the upper floors; next to the eastern main door is a plate-glass window, and next to the western entrance is a triple multi-paned window.

The 2nd floor has a large tripartite window at each half with an arched molding in the center panes, and fluting on the pilasters framing each pane. Three lanterns are mounted on the wall, in the center and at the ends; the ground floor has five smaller lanterns. Above both of the tripartite windows is a black signboard, edge in white, with yellow lettering spelling out "HURLEY'S" and "SALOON". The 2nd floor is capped by a white dentiled cornice carried on five console brackets.

The upper floors are set back, with completely different designs on the two halves, reflecting the separate buildings original configurations. The west half is faced in light-tan smooth-stucco matching the base, with two bays of windows. At the 3rd & 4th floors they are multi-paned, with slightly segmental-arched tops, and white wooden exterior shutters. A white dentiled cornice on three brackets tops the 4th floor, with the 5th floor having vertical black-painted panels at the ends, framing two recessed double-windows in a white-painted stucco field. This part of the facade is crowned by a mechanical bulkhead fronted by a wrought-iron screen.

The east half is clad in beige brick with bands of four windows in white metal frames on each of the three upper floors; each window band has a brick sill. Brick spandrels panels between floors are painted black, with a projecting stone flower in the center panel and square pyramids in the end panels. The roof line on this half is capped by a metal coping. There is a projecting, vertical sign mounted on the east edge of the facade at the 2nd-3rd floors, and a larger, lighted sign at the west edge, from the 3rd-5th floors.