35 East 10th Street

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9-story cooperative-apartment building originally completed as two separate structures in 1896: a 7-story and a 4-story store-and-loft building. They were joined and converted to residential in 1976, with a new penthouse on the western building, and six new recessed floors on top of the eastern building.

They both originally had twin round-arched entrances with recessed doors at the ends of the ground floor. These remain at the western building, with rustication all the way around each entrance; at the eastern building, one of the arches has been simplified and has a service door; the other has been replaced by a larger deeply-recessed main entrance for the whole complex, framed in black stone. The two storefronts remain.

The 2nd floor is united by a continuous dentiled cornice, and has matching rusticated brick piers, although the fenestration on the eastern half is divided into long bays of windows with metal mullions on the left, and a single bay on the right - the same as on the 3rd & 4th floors. A brick parapet with stone coping caps the original roof line at this building. On the western half, the brick is a darker shade, and only rusticated on the outer, single bays. Here, the 3rd-floor windows have stone enframements with triangular pediments. The two inner bays of paired windows are simpler, with flat stone lintels. The center pier has an Ionic capital at the top of the 4th floor, which is capped by a dentiled cornice. Extending above the neighboring building, the 5th-7th floors are clad in a browner brick, with flat stone lintels, and round-arched windows at the outer bays of the 7th floor, where the main piers have Corinthian capitals, and the intermediate piers have scrolled brackets. A simple cornice caps this floor, and sets off the stuccoed penthouse levels, with round-arched windows and a parapet with stone coping, stepped up at each pier.

The set-back newer upper floors of the eastern building are faced in tan smooth stucco, with paired windows on the left, two small square windows near the center, and projecting concrete balconies with metal railings at the right.

The combined building now contain 62 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Eskandar apparel, and Ritter-Antik art gallery.