Chelsea Manor Apartments

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228-foot, 21-story Neo-Classical/Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1925. Designed by Emery Roth, it was intended as a hotel, but the project went bankrupt before opening. It was completed as an apartment building and converted to a cooperative in 1985. The facade is clad in beige brick above a brown granite-and-glass ground floor lined with plate-glass storefronts, and a limestone 2nd floor. The north facade on 23rd Street has six storefront bays, and the main entrance between the 2nd & 3rd storefront bays from the west. It is a narrower bay, and has a bronze-and-glass door and sidelights set in an Art-Deco limestone surround, topped by a metal-and-frosted-glass marquee. There is also a small service entrance with a black metal door at the far west end. The east facade on the avenue is lined with eight storefront bays.

The upper floors on the east facade have six bays of single-windows in the middle, followed to either side by a double-window bay, two more single-windows, and double-window end bays. The north facade also has double-window end bays, and 10 single-windows in the middle, the outer pairs spaced slightly farther away from the others. The spandrels between floors at all the middle bays have thin, vertical bands of brick, and the facades are dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. There are two major setbacks above the 16th and 19th floors, with a tall, square penthouse rising from the eastern roof and topped with a crenelated parapet.

The rear, east-facing and south-facing facades are clad in plain tan brick. The east end of the south facade has two single-windows with a bay of small bathroom windows in between; the west end is set back. The north end of the west facade is similar, but with another bay of single-windows ending at the 12th floor. The set-back walls at the southwest corner of the building have a mix of double, single, and smaller bathroom windows.

The ground floor is occupied by QQ Nails & Spa, Patis pastries and cafe, a Starbucks coffee, the Vitamin Shoppe, and Asuka Sushi.

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