NYU East Building

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8-story university building completed in 1893 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Alfred Zucker, it is clad in stone, buff-colored brick, and terra-cotta. The ground floor is topped by a cornice with stone brackets, with each facade having a recessed, gold metal-framed entrance. The upper floors on the north facade consist of brick piers with interesting terra-cotta ornament running along each piers edges, up to a series of round-arches at the 6th floor. Each of the six recessed bays below the arches has a pair of windows, with black ornamental carved spandrel panels between floors. A cornice caps the 6th floor. The top two floors have narrower 2-story round-arches with single windows, crowned by a copper roof cornice with stone brackets and dentils. The eastern facade has the same design for the two northernmost and southermost bays, although the southern arches are both the narrower kind, with one window each per floor. All of these windows have been bricked-in, however. The center section on the east facade has a simple window pattern without the arches. Each window has a simple stone lintel and sill, and there is a Greek fret motif running between the 3rd & 4th floors. The roof cornice extends back along the east facade, but is shorter and without the brackets that appear on the north part of the building. NYU acquired the building in 1932.

In 2013, the interior was completely renovated by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects to create a LEED gold-certified building which is currently used by the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

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