Infinity Flats (New York City, New York)

 condominium, 1904_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

9-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1904. Designed by Frederick C. Zobel as a store and offices called the Gramercy Building, it is faced in tan brick and limestone. The building has a 2-story, limestone base articulated by heavily coursed pilasters, set on grey granite plinths, which support a modified Doric entablature. The central bay features a doorway with an over-scaled broken-pediment carried on console brackets. Side bays are infilled with modern metal storefronts. The western bay has an exterior stair to the basement; it is surrounded on two sides by a half-wall with metal rail. At the 2nd floor there are three window panes in the end bays, and two in the center, all with transoms.

The 3rd, transitional floor, faced in brick, has three segmental-arched openings; the end bays are divided into three windows and the central bay into two. The limestone surrounds of the 3rd floor terminate in a keystone-adorned string course which follows the arches of the openings.

The 4-story brick mid-section retains the bay divisions of the transitional story, but replaces the arches with flat, stone lintels. A stone cornice separates this section from the 2-story top which is articulated by coursed, brick pilasters (with stone capitals and small cartouches), decorative spandrels featuring round pediments, and a dentiled white metal roof cornice.

Among the building's tenants were publishers, magazine offices, architects' offices, decorators, and companies selling artists' materials, embroidery, lace curtains, oriental goods, and silk. Dress Magazine, which later became Vanity Fair, was begun in this building.

In 2006, it was converted to condominiums by architect Karl Fischer. The ground floor is occupied by Chica and The Don restaurant, and Almayass Lebanese-Armenian restaurant.