The Sloane Apartments

 high-rise, apartment building, 1930_construction, Colonial Revival (architecture)

167-foot, 14-story Neo-Georgian residential building completed in 1930. Designed by Cross & Cross, it opened as the William J. Sloane YMCA Building. It was sold by the YMCA in 1994 and converted to apartments. It is clad in red brick above a limestone ground floor. The main, north facade on 34th Street has twin entrances with banded enframements and splayed lintels topped by rounded pediments broken by eagles with shields. The western one is the main entrance, and has a long, black canvas canopy extending onto the sidewalk. The other entrance is for the retail space on the ground floor. Wall-mounted lanterns flank the main entrance, and there is a stone panel topped by two carved wreaths in between the two entries. At both ends of the ground floor are three show-windows, and a recessed outer bay with a metal service door, set behind an iron gate.

Above the ground floor are five double-height round-arches, topped with brick architraves and stone impost blocks and keystones. The outer two are flanked by tall single-windows on each side at the 2nd floor, and slightly projected forward from the center of the facade. There are regular-sized single-windows at the 3rd floor flanking the outer arches. The recessed outer bays have narrow paired windows at the 2nd & 3rd floors. The top of the base is delineated by a stone band course with the inscription "YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION" in the center. Above, there is a brick parapet in the center, interrupted by three stone balustrades and topped by a stone coping; behind this, the upper floors of the center section are set back.

The two wings created by the setback in the middle are each three bays wide, with single-windows; the center section has seven windows per floor, as well as paired windows on the side walls of the setback. Flat stone band courses run across the tops of the 6th, 7th & 10th floor, where the wings are topped by brick parapets and stone balustrades like those above the middle of the 3rd floor, and the rest of the facade rises flush from the 11th floor up. Large, projecting flagpoles are attached to the middle bay of both of the wings, below the 4th-floor window. At the 5th floor the windows at each wing have splayed brick lintels, with keystones at the outer windows and a rounded, raised, shield-like keystone at the center window. There are square stone panels between the 4th- & 5th-floor windows of the wings. The center 6th-floor window of the middle section has a stone surround. At the 7th floor all three of the wing windows have splayed stone lintels, as do two of the windows in the middle section. The 9th floor matches the 4th floor; likewise the middle of the 10th floor matches the 5th. The wings of the 10th floor, just below the parapet, have a stone-enframed square window in the center, flanked by two rectangular stone panels.

The recessed outer bays have paired windows and keyed stonework on the outer edges all the way up to the 11th floor, which has round-arched windows. At the 12th & 13th floors the two wings only slightly project forward and are edges with keyed stone. All the windows here are square-headed; those at the outer bays have a stone panel between the two floors. Above the 13th floor the middle section and outer bays are topped by brick parapet with stone balustrades. The two wings extend up to a 14th floor with a stone panel in the middle, topped by a round-arch and keystone, and flanked by square-headed windows. Both wings are crowned by a triangular pediment with finials at the ends.

Most of the design elements, including band courses, keyed stonework and lintels carry over to the east and west facades, which also have projecting and recessed sections. The wings at the ends of these facades are topped by rounded pediments. The south facade has a row of show-windows with roll-down metal gates at the ground floor. The upper floors are simpler, all with square-headed windows, but the band courses carry over, and there are a few splayed stone lintels at the 7th floor. The two bays with paired windows set back slightly above the 11th floor, where only these two bays have round-arched windows.

The building contains 252 apartment units which are managed by Triumph Property Group. The ground floor is occupied by B&H Photo, which also occupies the lower two floors of the neighboring building to the west.

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