333 West 39th Street (New York City, New York) | office building, high-rise, Art Deco (architecture), 1930_construction

 office building, high-rise, Art Deco (architecture), 1930_construction

180-foot, 14-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1930. Designed by Shampan & Shampan, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story beige-painted limestone base. The ground floor is divided into three parts, with storefronts at the ends, and a central entrance section. The main entrance is at the left side of this middle section, with a service entrance to the right and a smaller storefront in the center. All three are under shallow arches with black stone panels, flanked by piers on black granite plinths and adorned with typically Art-Deco geometric and stylized floral motifs. The 2nd floor has wide show-windows in the end bays, and two smaller show-windows in the middle bay. A broad stone band course caps the base.

The upper floors are organized as ten narrow bays of single-windows with uninterrupted brick piers. The windows have simple stone sills and the brick spandrels have dentil-like projecting bricks along the sides. The three outer bays on each side set back above the 7th floor, while the middle section extends up to the 9th floor before setting back, creating a projecting central tower with angled side walls. Setbacks are marked by geometrically patterned cast-stone panels and simple stone coping. There are additional setbacks at the end and middle sections every two floors up to the roof line.

The west elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick with buff-colored brick at the front edge. The front bay of windows begins with four panes per floor, narrower to three above the first setback and ending at the 2nd. The next bay back has three panes, also narrowing at the upper setbacks. In the middle of the elevation are two bays of triple-windows rising all the way to the roof line, and another bay at the rear that narrows from three panes to one at the setbacks of the rear facade. The ground floor is occupied by Aleef Coffee House, and R/GA Advertising.