Hanover River House Cooperative

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205-foot, 13-story Art-Deco office/residential building completed in 1931. Designed by Cross & Cross, it has a 1-story base of white cast-stone with multi-pane kalamein windows. The center bay of the 1st floor of the Greenwich Street facade is further enhanced by paired door cast in a bronze alloy topped by screens of the same material. The doors are fronted by unusual paired metal retractable sliding doors. The northern bay also contains an historic door with a metal surround. The remnants of a sign in a patterned brick frieze above the 2nd floor reads "Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company." Paired bronze and glass doors are also found near the eastern end of the Jay Street facade adjacent to a former garage door.

Above the ground floor both facades are clad in white brick with decorative brickwork found in some spandrel panels. The building sets back behind a decorative brick frieze at the 10th floor, where it rises another three stories. The southern and eastern elevations, visible above the neighboring buildings on Greenwich and Jay Streets, are faced in brick. The building was occupied by the Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company (later Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company) for many years; it is currently residential with offices at the ground floor after being converted for Davidia Associates.

Its lower level tenant is Joseph Carini Carpets which occupies a semi-intact former banking hall.

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