40 West 67th Street

 apartment building, 1928_construction

10-story Neo-Gothic cooperative-apartment building completed in 1928. Designed by Rosario Candela, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a limestone ground floor with a low, grey granite water table. The main entrance is in the western of the two main center bays, with a molded segmental-arch containing wooden double-doors below a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. Slender Gothic pilasters frame the upper part of the arch and extend to crocketed finials at the top of the 2nd floor. The other center bays has two 3-over-4 windows at the ground floor. The next outer bays have a window (narrow at the west bay) next to a wooden door with an arched transom. The end bays each have another window, with the east end bay also having a gated basement entrance in another segmental-arch.

At the upper floors, the two center bays are the most prominent, with large leaded-glass studio windows, each with four main panes and transoms. Between the floors are green metal spandrel panels. The next outer bays have paired windows with herringbone brickwork in the spandrels and projecting, angled brick ribs running vertically between the pairs. The end bays have smaller single-windows (2-over-4), with framing pilasters at the 9th floor, where these bays are topped by peaked pediments. The rest of the facade also sets back above the 9th floor, with a decorative niche at the center pier. The penthouse level is set-back, and from the middle of the roof rises a brick-clad water tower enclosure.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1949, with 39 apartments.