The MAve Hotel

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136-foot, 11-story hotel building completed in 1903. Designed by Charles Brenden for Joseph Wolf, it opened as the Madison Hotel. The 2-story base is clad in rusticated limestone, with a modern metal-and-glass addition at the corner. On 27th Street, the base is horizontally coursed at the west end and painted dark-grey at the ground floor. The windows at the 2nd floor, and those above, consist of a bay of paired windows at the west, small bathroom windows flanked by regular-sized windows in the center, and another bay of paired windows at the east, where the right-hand window at each floor has been shortened. Up to the 7th floor, the bathroom windows have splayed stone lintels; all the rest have projecting stone cornices with brackets, as well as small cartouches between the paired windows. All of the windows have stone sills. There are also brick quoins at the edges of the facade from the 3rd-7th floors.

At the 8th floor, there is a double string course. The 10th & 11th floors have stone surrounds with peaked pediments at the outer bays, which consists of nearly-vertical mansards, while the center bay is framed by coursed brick pillars supporting a pair of chimneys that rise above the mansards and frame a central, dentiled gable. The windows at the 11th floor's center bay are round-arched.

The east elevation is two bays wide, with similar details, including the quoins and bracketed cornices at the 3rd-7th floors, and the steep mansard and round-arched top-floor windows. In 2009, the hotel was remodeled and re-opened as the MAve NYC. The east end of the ground floor is occupied Om Juice Bar, and a psychic, with Coppa coffee shop at the west end.