The Morleigh (New York City, New York)

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125-foot, 11-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building originally completed in 1925 with 10 floors. Designed by Robert T. Lyons, it is clad in variegated light grey-brown brick above a 2-story limestone base, five bays wide. The entrance is in the center bay, set in a 1 1/2-story molding with a cornice on top. The wood-and-glass double-doors and transom are covered by a rounded grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is a copper-and-glass light fixture on either side of the molding near the top. The bays on either side have double-windows separated by black iron mullions - except for the west end bay, which has paired windows instead, and at the ground floor a single-window next to a metal service door down a couple steps from the sidewalk. The windows on the ground floor have iron grilles. The stone spandrels between the two floors at each bay have vertical fluted panels on either side of a carved urn. The base is capped by a dentiled stone band course.

The upper floors also have double-windows with black iron mullions in each bay. At the 3rd floor they have stone surrounds with rope moldings. The other floors have stone sills, brick lintels, and herringbone-patterned brickwork in the spandrels of the middle bays. A band course sets off the top two floors, which have projecting stone balconies at the three middle bays on the 9th floor. The 9th-10th floors have double-height opening in round-arches, with each containing two round-arched windows at the top floor. These two floors have green copper mullions and spandrels. A stone parapet marks the roof line. The east and west elevations are plain brick, with no openings except for lining the light wells that are at the center of both of these elevations, giving the building an H-shape.

The penthouse level is set back, and was added later. It is clad in white-painted stone, and has a large triangular pediment at the center of the north facade, and a low-sloped, pyramidal shingle roof at the west end. The building was converted to a co-op in 1986, with 58 apartments.