The Sterling

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144-foot, 13-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1950. Designed by Pomerance & Breines, it is clad in white glazed brick. There is a central entrance with glass-and-metal double-doors flanked by windows, under a rounded green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To the right are three bays of tripartite windows and to the left a wood-and-glass restaurant storefront with its entrance near the west end, below a pagoda-like metal canopy. The end bays, and also the other two bays comprising the storefront, project out slightly from the rest of the facade.

The upper floors have eight bays of tripartite windows, including the projecting end bays. Each has a metal sill and an air-conditioning vent below it. The end bays terminate above the 10th floor, and the middle four bays set back above the 11th, with a full-floor setback to the penthouse level above the 12th floor. A tall, brick-clad water tower enclosure rises from the center of the roof.

The building contains 116 apartments. The west side of the ground floor is occupied by Amata restaurant, and the east side by 209 NYC Dental.