854 Seventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

 apartment building, 1901_construction, commercial building

6-story residential/commercial building completed in 1901. Designed by Henry Davidson, the building is best known for being the long-time home of the famed Carnegie Deli, which occupied the lower two floors and closed at the end of 2016. The facade is clad in white brick above a stone, metal, and glass ground-floor storefront. The 2nd-4th floors have square brick quoins at the edges, continuing across the top of the 4th floor as a pair of segmental-arches with ornamented keystones. The 2nd floor has a projecting bay window at the right, topped by a cornice with an egg-and-dart molding. To the left is a small louvered vent opening and a single-window with a bracketed cornice. The floors above have four bays of single-windows.

The 3rd & 4th floors have bracketed sills, and there is a central columns of square quoins beginning at the middle of the 3rd floor, extending up to the segmental-arches. The 3rd-floor windows are topped by projecting eared lintels, and the 4th floor has round-arched windows with simple keystones. Above a stone cornice, the top two floors have tall keystones above the windows. A white metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade, which is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets, modillions, dentils, and panels.

The Carnegie Deli opened in 1937. The deli, though having had its main branch closed, still operates a wholesale distribution service, and has deli locations in Las Vegas, Nevada; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Six Flags Great Adventure; and Foxwoods Resort Casino.