152 West 49th Street

 apartment building, commercial building

6-story residential building completed in 1930. Designed by David S. Lang, it is clad in dark-brown brick, with sections of beige stucco at the top. The ground floor has a stone-enframed, segmental-arched door at the west end, modernized storefronts in the middle, and a metal service door at the east end. The upper floors have two bays of single-windows at the east side, then a bay of smaller windows, two more bays of single-windows, a second bay of smaller windows, and a west bay of paired windows (at the 2nd & 3rd floors) and double-windows (at the top three floors).

There is beige stucco facing on the top two floors of the easternmost bay and the two bays next to the west bay, and the top three floors of the west by itself. A black metal fire escape runs down the three bays that are fully faced in brick, and the facade is topped by a brick roof parapet. A 2-story, projecting, vertical sign is mounted on the west edge of the facade at the 2nd-3rd floors. The ground floor is occupied by Ichiran restaurant.