201 West 54th Street (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, historical layer / disappeared object, commercial building

6-story residential building completed in 1917. Designed by George & Edward Blum as a tenement, it is clad in brown ironspot brick. The ground floor along the avenue is lined with wood, metal, and glass storefronts. The main entrance is near the center of the south facade on 54th Street, with glass-and-metal double-doors set under a brick round-arch with a keystone. To the right is a narrow commercial door, and two windows, each with canvas awnings. To the left are three single-windows with arched brick lintels and stone sills. There is a band of decorative brickwork capping the ground floor, and a stone band course below the 2nd floor.

The upper floors on the south facade have two middle bays of double-windows, flanked by a bay of small bathroom windows, another bay of double-windows, and end bays of single-windows with arched brick lintels. The regular-sized windows have stone sills, and at the outer double-window bays, these project to form shallow balconettes with iron railings. The double-windows are divided by black iron mullions. There is patterned brickwork across the top floor, capped by a crenelated roof parapet with a stone coping.

The east facade on the avenue has two bays of single-windows flanked by end bays of double-windows. An iron fire escape runs down the middle bays. The building contains 23 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Hao Hao Gift Shop, and SLR Camera & Computers.