Darling Building

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7-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1894. Designed by Berg & Clark as a store and office building, it has frontages on both Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The first two floors of both facades were substantially altered in 1902 for the Lincoln Trust Co., which leased the space from the Estate of Alfred B. Darling. Additional ground-floor facade alterations took place in 1909, but both facades have remained largely intact since then. It was occupied in the 1920's by Mark Cross Harness & Leather Goods.

Both facades are three bays wide. They both have 2-story bases set within a molded limestone architrave and topped by Greek fret molding; both storefronts and glass and yellow-painted wood. The Broadway storefront has large plate-glass windows flanking the central entrance, with short transoms above each; the center one has a metal grille. The storefront on 5th Avenue has slightly-recessed side bays with double doors flanking the center show window. There is a transom window above the center bay, and metal grilles above the doors.

The upper floors have decoratively stone-banded brick outer piers surrounding green metal framed windows at the 3rd-6th floors. The 7th floor has three stone-enframed windows and ornately paneled outer piers. Both facades are capped by bracketed and dentiled green metal roof cornices that wrap partly around to the south elevation.

The building was converted to apartments around 2000. The ground floor is occupied by Heyday facial spa, and Hudson Allergy Flatiron.

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