260 West 35th Street

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170-foot, 14-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1925. Designed by Sommerfeld & Steckler, it is clad in brown brick above a 3-story limestone base. The ground floor originally had matching entrances in the end bays, but the main entrance in the eastern bay has been altered to recessed glass doors and transom framed in dark-colored marble. The west bay has a service door with roll-down metal gate, and is topped by the original cornice with two scrolled brackets. Between the entrances are two small storefronts. The 2nd & 3rd floors have 2-over-3 windows in the end bays, with brown metal framing, and another 2-over-3 window in the middle, flanked by 2-over-3 windows with wider panes. Stone band courses cap both floors, with brackets at the piers at the top of the 2nd floors.

On the upper floors the end bays have double-windows, and the slightly-recessed, wide middle bay has five windows divided by brown metal mullions. A row of vertically laid bricks tops the window band in each of the middle bays, and the spandrels in this bay are paneled. A small stone cornice caps the 9th floor. Slightly larger cornices cap the end bays at the 10th floor, with setbacks above them. The end windows in the middle section set back above the 11th floor, with the middle three windows rising to the 12th floor before setting back.

The rear, south-facing facade is clad in white-painted brick with three asymmetrical bays: the west bay has a band of four windows, the center has three windows except for the top floors which have two, and the east bay doors opening onto protruding balconies with metal railings, except for the top two floors, which have wider balconies and two doors. The ground floor is occupied by Liberty Bagels, and Moon Tex fabrics.