The Europa

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257-foot, 26-story postmodern residential building completed in 1995. Designed by Wechsler, Grasso, Menziuso, P.C., construction actually began in 1984, but the project floundered when the original developer, Herbert Handman, died. Construction halted in 1986. After years of dormancy, it was finally acquired by Stirling Equities at a cut-rate price, and construction resumed in 1993, with Joseph Pell Lombardi as the architect.

The facade is clad in dark-grey brick, beige pre-cast stone, and glass. The ground floor is limestone and has three very deeply-recessed bays, the middle one slightly wider. The main entrance is in the west bay, with bronze-and-glass double-doors below a round-arched transom. The east bay has a metal service door, and there is a fountain at the rear wall of the middle bay.

The upper floors have bands of beige concrete between each floor. The middle section is set back, with the west bay projecting out to the building line, connected to the middle section by an angled wall. This angled facet has French doors opening onto projecting balconies at each floor. The brick walls of the balconies are topped by short metal railings. The west bay itself has double-windows. The recessed middle section to the east of the balconies has a bay of small double-windows. The east bay also projects out, with triple-windows, and an angled northeast corner, with the windows continuing for another pane. The windows also wrap around the west corner of the projecting east section for another pane. The angled end facet continues to the east building line, with more balconies fronting sliding glass doors on the east elevation. All of the windows have upper transom panes.

The building contains only 26 condominium units.