Cushman Building

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7-story eclectic-style cooperative-apartment building completed in 1899 as a store-and-loft building for Joseph W. Cushman. Designed by C.P.H. Gilbert, it is clad in beige brick, and green and red terra-cotta and stone. The ground floor has limestone end piers, and narrower, paneled white cast-iron piers separating it into three bays. The middle bay has a entrance into the ground-floor commercial space, with glass double-doors and sidelights. The east bay has the entrance to the upper floors, with a single door between wider sidelights. The west bay has had an ATM installed between the wide sidelights. A green metal cornice caps the ground floor.

The 2nd floor has three bays of triple-windows, and here the bays are separated by red pilasters with Renaissance ornament and rams' heads. A green metal band sets off the 3rd floor, and the brick end piers have two vertical bands of projecting brick, running from the 2nd-7th floors. The two middle piers are similar at the 3rd-7th floors.

The 3rd-7th floors have double-windows divided by red engaged columns, and between the floors in each bay is a green terra-cotta spandrel with a central roundel. The 7th floor is set off by a green cornice with an intricate pattern and small modillions, as well as a grotesque bearded face at each pier. Similar faces top each pier at the roof line, where the piers extends slightly above.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1984, with 21 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by NorthEast Community Bank.

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