40 West 28th Street

 office building, apartments

5-story residential building completed in 1900. Designed by Buchman & Fox as a store-and-loft building, the facade is three bays wide, clad in limestone. The ground floor has white-painted rusticated piers and a modernized storefront with a black metal bulkhead. A cornice above the ground floor has modillions at the end bays. At the 2nd floor the piers have stylized capitals, and there is another cornice with an egg-and-dart molding.

The 3rd & 4th floors have gleaming copper frames, slender Corinthian columns, and paneled spandrels above Greek-fret bands. The copper was all replaced in 2011. Above a cornice with broken dentil bands, the top floor has three round-arched windows with iron tracery, banded piers, and elaborate keystones. The facade is crowned by a restored copper roof cornice with modillions and egg-and-dart molding.

One of the first tenants was the New York Music Company, which published such hits as "Strike Up The Band" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". Later tenants included numerous apparel firms. The ground floor is occupied by Central Floral Supply. It underwent residential conversion and restoration in 2011.

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