The Brevard

 high-rise, apartment building, 1977_construction

332-foot, 29-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1977. Designed by Philip Birnbaum & Associates, it is clad in dark-brown brick. Limestone piers divide the 2-story base into five wide bays along the avenue, while the north facade on 55th Street has five narrower bays, and the south facade on 54th Street spans seven small bays - the center one is slightly wider and contains the main entrance. It has a glass revolving door flanked by two traditional glass doors, and is covered by a dark-brown metal canopy.

At the west end of the north side there is a small courtyard called Brevard Park separating the building from a ramp down to the underground parking garage. There is another small garage entrance at the west end of the south facade, below a metal vent at the 2nd floor. The next bay to the east has metal service doors, and the bays around the main entrance have glass infill. At the east end on 54th Street there is a triple-window at the 2nd floor. The ground floor along the avenue is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts, and the 2nd floor has bands of nine windows in brown metal framing. There are plate-glass restaurant storefronts in the five bays on the north facade's ground floor, with triple-windows at the 2nd floor. A low-angled, red metal awning extends over a patio area at the ground floor. The base is capped by a broad limestone band.

The upper floors have 11 bays along the avenue, most with triple-windows. The two bays flanking the center bay, and the bays just inward of the end bays have double-windows instead. All have white metal framing, and the center panes of the triple-windows are single-paned instead of the double-hung panes on either side. Concrete floor plates run across each level, and there are black metal air-conditioning vents below each window bay.

The south facade has eight bays on the upper floors, with double-windows at the ends and at the middle two, which are joined by a central pane of black glass; the other bays have tripartite windows. The north facade's five bays have double-windows at the ends and tripartite windows in the middle three bays. The floor plates and vents continue onto these facades as well. The west facade has a short wing extending farther west at the south end, with two bays of single-windows near the center. To the north it has seven bays of tripartite and double-windows. There is a projecting, angled window bay at the joint between the north section and the projecting south wing. The short north-facing wall of the south wing has a bay of tripartite windows and one of double-windows.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1983 and contains 406 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Angelo's Pizza, Pinkberry frozen yogurt, Blueline Dental, 3F Living/NextStop New York real estate, and Salon Wave.