153-157 West 23rd Street | condominium

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150-foot, 12-story Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1912. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it has a 3-story rusticated limestone base. The end bays have twin entrances at the ground floor, framed by paneled stone pillars and console brackets supporting dentiled entablatures and rounded pediments. At the 2nd & 3rd floors the end bays have single-windows with footed stone sills. The 3-bay center section is framed in red iron with large windows topped by transoms at the 2nd floor, and tripartite windows with transoms on the 3rd. The spandrel bands are decorated with rows of circles. The base is capped by a modillioned cornice with a central cartouche flanked by green garlands.

The upper floors are clad in brown brick. Again the end bays have single-windows with stone sills. The middle bays each have double-windows with black metal mullions, stone sill courses, and brick spandrels ornamented with designs in terra-cotta. The 10th floor is framed on the bottom by a dentiled band course and on the top by a modillioned cornice; it has slightly wider brick pilasters in place of the metal mullions between the window panes. The four main piers around the end bays are outlined in stone, as they are on the top two floors, grouping each bay into 2-story segments with round-arches at the top floor. Four large brackets support the black metal roof cornice. The exposed upper western elevation is clad in brown brick with a number of segmental-arched windows and remnants of painted signage. The ground floor is occupied by Solidcore pilates studio.