The Waverly (New York City, New York) | Art Deco (architecture), apartment building, 1929_construction, housing cooperative

 Art Deco (architecture), apartment building, 1929_construction, housing cooperative

164-foot, 16-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1929. Designed by Walter S. Schneider, the building is clad in buff-colored brick, with the area around the entrance on Waverly Place faced in stone. The second floor above the entrance canopy is decorated with carved stone figures and shields in a medieval style. An interesting treatment of the Sixth Avenue facade provides a vertical emphasis at the center portion, with bold corner motifs in brick resembling quoins to give horizontal emphasis. One of the larger apartment buildings in Greenwich Village, it is also notable for its attractive, arched, rooftop watertank enclosure whose tall, narrow arches are repeated in the peaked roof line.

The east facade on Sixth Avenue has four center bays, flanked by a single bay a smaller, narrow windows and an end bay of large, square windows. The spandrels between the center bays have vertical bars of extruded brick. The north facade on Waverly Place has five center bays, with a bay of paired windows and an end bay on either side of the same style as those on the avenue. The south elevation is clad in brown brick, with the windows all grouped at the rear half of the facade. The west facade is also clad in brown brick, with regular windows and a black metal fire escape.

The building contains 76 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Hong Kong Tailor Jack, Carlo Marco Studio spa, The Vitamin Shoppe, NY Gifts, and Taj Jewelry.