Clinton Housing Development

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5-story residential complex composed of several formerly-individual tenement building, most completed in the 1870s. They were renovated and combined in 1997 by the Clinton Housing Development Company, a non-profit organization, with a total of 38 apartment units and some ground-floor retail units. All of the facades are predominantly clad in red or red-painted brick.

The 4-story facade facing the avenue has 12 bays of windows on the upper floors and storefronts lining the ground floor, topped by a grey metal cornice. The upper-floor windows all have stone sills and metal cornices. The cornice above the ground floor continues onto the south facade, ending near the west end where there is a narrow doorway. There are five more bays of windows on the upper floors, with the end windows spaced further apart, especially at the east end. Riveted iron band courses run between each floor, and both facade are crowned by a dark-green metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets. A 1-story section of blank brick wall joins the buildings on the avenue with those extending to the west along 40th Street.

The first building on 40th Street is four bays wide, with five floors. It has a doorway at the east end, framed by ornamented black iron pilasters; to the left a brownstone planter box follows the descending slope of the sidewalk, above which are three large windows divided by slender iron colonnettes (and another pilaster at the west end). A stone-and-brick entablature caps the ground floor. The upper floors have square-headed windows with projecting, bracketed stone sills and metal cornices. The facade is crowned by a red metal roof cornice with brackets, panels, and modillions.

The next facade, also five stories, incorporates a symmetrical grouping of features. In the center are four low, segmental-arched windows with green iron grilles in a X-and-box pattern, set in a rusticated brownstone wall of the raised basement. To either side is a door topped by a tall 2-over-5 window extending up to the parlor-floor level. Both and door and window above are framed by a green-painted stone surround with a metal cornice at the top. At the far outside bays are narrow doors surmounted by windows with segmental-arched lintels at the top. Above these are small oval windows at the parlor-floor level. At the middle four bays, the parlor level has single-windows with stone sills and metal cornices. The 2nd-4th floors have similar windows, but across six bays, with smaller, thin windows at the narrow end bays. A green metal fire escape runs down the middle two bays. Above a dark-green metal roof cornice with panels and modillions is an attic floor with four peaked dormers.

The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Capizzi restaurant, International Grocery, and the Sea Breeze Fish market, which has been in continuous operation on 9th Avenue and 40th Street for over 100 years.