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NYU Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Waverly Place, 12-16
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6-story university building completed in 1892. Designed by Alfred Zucker as a manufacturing and workshop building, it has two completely different sections architecturally. The wider, western portion is clad in white brick and terra-cotta. The ground floor is grey-painted cast-iron with narrow pilasters supporting a dentiled cornice with a pair of stone balustrades on top, running across the base of the 2nd floor, where there are eight round-arches and carved capitals on the piers (three main, large ones, and six smaller secondary). All the window openings on the facade are fairly deeply recessed. Above the arches, the facade takes on projecting terra-cotta banding with rows of small circles alternating with the white brick. The banding angles to form splayed lintels over the windows. A modillioned stone cornice tops the 5th floor, where the banding ends. The top floor windows are separated by Ionic columns. A quadruple row of dentils marks the roof line.

The narrower eastern section is clad in red sandstone, grey-painted cast-iron, tan brick and terra-cotta. The ground floor has a cornice with small brackets. On the upper floors, the right section has triple windows, and the slightly narrower left section has double windows. The 2nd-3rd floors have rough sandstone bands, with cast-iron framed windows on the right and small, punched-out square windows on the left. At the base of the 4th floor are two dentiled cornices, with the one of the left being lower on the facade, and featuring a pair of gargoyles. Above the cornices the facade transitions to brick. On the left side, the double windows are narrow round-arches, with projecting dentiled sills and spiral columns in between. The 4th floor window is set lower than the cast-iron framed windows on the right, but matches up on the 5th & 6th floors. The right side on these floors has the triple windows set under cast-iron round-arches, with slender Corinthian columns between each window, and brick panels in the spandrels. The roof line is capped by a stone coping. On the left side, the roof rises slightly higher, with a quintet of small round-arches just below a corbelled cornice. The building was acquired by NYU in 1965.

In 2010, the building was altered and expanded by Ennead Architects/Polshek Partnership which retrofitted the existing building and added ten additional stories of vertical laboratory space.

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Coordinates:   40°43'47"N   73°59'40"W
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