450 West 55th Street

USA / New Jersey / West New York / West 55th Street, 450
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5-story Neo-Grec cooperative-apartment building completed around 1880. It is faced in brown-painted brownstone. The ground floor has a central entrance with a glass door and sidelight, atop a small stoop and covered by a dark-red canvas clamshell canopy. There is a square, 2-over-2 window on either side, and a basement areaway to the left of the stoop.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows with full stone surrounds, including bracketed sills and lintels with incised ornament. A black iron fire escape runs down the middle two bays of the facade.
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Coordinates:   40°46'2"N   73°59'19"W
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