299 West Twelfth Condominiums

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200-foot, 18-story residential building completed in 1931. Designed by Emery Roth for the developers Bing & Bing. Here, the first two floors of this tan brick building have been differentiated from the upper portion of the building through the introduction of stone trim. A series of low arches at first floor level are crowned by a horizontal band course which skillfully relates to the earlier buildings to the north. The second floor windows are set beneath a handsome band course with individual stone corbels forming a dentiled effect. Delicate colonnettes are inset at the Twelfth Street corner at both of these floors. The main entrance on Twelfth Street is also accented by a 2-story stone frame.

The building initially opened as an apartment hotel with a kitchen on the ground floor. It was converted into condominiums, mostly studio and 1-bedroom units (183 in total), in 1986.