Lincoln Terrace Apartments

 high-rise, apartment building, 1964_construction, housing cooperative

222-foot, 20-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1964. Designed by Ralph E. Leff, it was one of the first large residential buildings constructed in this neighborhood after the completion of Lincoln Center. The building is clad in light-beige brick above a ground floor that is lined with storefronts along the avenue (framed by grey granite above and below), and is clad in grey granite along the west part on 66th Street, where the main entrance is. The recessed entry has glass-and-bronze double-doors and sidelights between a pair of red granite piers; a peaked, red canvas canopy extends out over the sidewalk. The only opening to the west is a glass-and-metal service door. To the east is another recessed bay with a window wall behind two low, square, granite planters. The center of the south facade is set slightly farther back, past where the granite cladding at the west side ends. There are five bays with a secondary entrance of a glass door in the center one, atop a few low steps that are flanked by wide brick planter boxes with white stone caps. The facade projects back out at the next three bays on the east end, with a recessed end bay that has an entrance to the underground parking garage.

The middle section of the west facade is highlighted by a central bay of recessed balconies that serve several apartments on each floor. They have metal-and-glass railings and front four bays of double-windows (outer) and sliding glass doors (inner) at each floor, extending up to the 15th floor. There are three bays to the south, with double-windows flanking a 5-pane arrangement of narrow-wide-narrow-wide-narrow panes. To the north are three bays (tripartite windows flanking double-windows), and two set-back end bays, the southern of which is fronted by projecting balconies; the other one has double-windows. These balconies also end at the 15th floor, and the north and south ends have shallow setbacks above the 15th & 16th floors.

On the south facade, the upper floors of the center recessed section has seven bays, the outer two of which have projecting balconies, with the western ones wider. The other bays have double-windows (three of them), tripartite windows, and the 5-window arrangement in the bay next to the east end bay. The eastern four of these bays have a shallow setback above the 11th floor, and a lower roof line above the 12th. At the non-recessed east end of the facade, there are two bays of double-windows, a bay of tripartite windows, and then a set-back end bay with balconies. This section also ends at the 12th floor.

The west end of the south facade, also not recessed, has a tripartite window bay, two bays of double-windows, and then an end bay of paired single-windows, extending up to a setback above the 16th floor. There is a 1-story commercial wing extending out to 67th Street on the north side. It is clad in white brick with three bays of windows (one wide) on the east and is taller with beige brick on the west, where the commercial entrance is through glass double-doors below a large, square window above. A small stainless-steel canopy cover the entry, and there is a metal service door to the right. Both sections are capped by a stainless-steel coping.

The building was converted to rentals to a co-op in 1984, with 376 apartments. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by a Starbucks coffee, LaserAway cosmetic laser skincare, and Lincoln Terrace Cleaners. The 1-story extension on 67th is occupied by Lincoln Square Veterinary Hospital.