213-223 Front Street (New York City, New York)

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7-story residential building completed in 2005 as part of the Historic Front Street re-development project. One of three new construction buildings in the project, it was designed by Cook+Fox, and actually appears as four separate facades.

On the west side, it rises six floors, clad in red brick with a black iron storefront at the ground floor. There are four bays of windows with white stone sills. On the 2nd floor, the windows are covered by horizontal sun shades, and a dentiled brick band course runs across the top. Similar dentiled band courses runs below the 4th, 5th & 6th floors. The windows on the 3rd, 4th & 5th floors have white stone lintels, while the shorter 6th-floor windows have a connected white stone lintel course crossing the facade just below the small metal roof cornice. A column of black brick separated this section from the next facade.

The eastern of the two center facades, rising seven floors, is clad in darker, variegated red brick. It also has dark-grey iron elements at the ground floor, and a large metal canopy suspended over the sidewalk that also extends over the ground floor of the next facade to the east. There are three windows bays, with three panes in the wider western bay, and two panes in each of the others. The windows are slightly recessed behind the piers, with stone sills and continuous metal I-beam lintels. The brick in the spandrels in a lighter grey shade. A beige metal band course separates the top two floors, which have narrower piers, and the eastern two bays combined into a wide double bay framed in beige metal. The western bay, with two panes on each floor at the top two floors, is also framed in beige metal. The wide double bay on the east ends at the roof with a pair of roof elements sloping in opposite directions.

The western of the two center facades rises five floors, with a common base to the adjoining facade on the west, except for one brick pier on the east end that has two horizontal stone bands. The facade is clad in red brick with three bays of windows, plus a western bay abutting the neighboring facade that is completely of metal and glass, with horizontal sun shades. At the other bays, the 2nd- & 4th-floor windows are shorter than those on the 3rd & 5th floors. All of these windows have stone sills, and except for the top floor, have white-painted stone lintels. At the base of the 5th floor, a stone band carries onto the neighboring facade to the east. The brick piers end at the tops of the 5th-floor windows, where a beige metal cornice matches the one to the east.

The easternmost facade is clad in an more orange shade of brick, with similar dark-grey iron elements at the ground floor as the other facades. It has three regular bays of windows on the 2nd-4th floors, and a separate bay of shorter, squared windows on the eastern edge, above a recessed entrance. This bay has white stone sills and lintels, and short columns of darker red brick to the left of every window, rising six stories. The 6th-floor window is different, wrapping around an open corner, with a broad grey stone lintel topped by a small metal cornice above. At the 2nd floor of this bay, the window is replaced with a stone tablet bearing an lengthy inscription - a quote from Moby Dick. At the 3rd & 4th floors, dark-grey metal bands run beneath the sills of the three western bays. At the 5th floor, there is a double bay of windows and a continuation of the beige metal cornice from next door. A narrow section of the facade sets back above the leftmost of the three bays to a grey metal-clad surface on the 5th & 6th floors that slants back at an angle. Behind this is a set-back 7th-level penthouse.

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