120 West 70th Street

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9-story Neo-Georgian cooperative-apartment building completed in 1917. Designed by Rouse & Goldstone, it is clad in dark-red ironspot brick with a rough-faced, grey granite water table. The facade has six main bays, with double-windows separated by black iron mullions, plus a very narrow bay of single-windows inserted next to the west end bay.

At the ground floor the windows have white-painted stone surrounds and iron grilles. The main entrance is in the 3rd bay from the east, which is clad in stained wood, with fluted pilasters at the ends and a cornice across the top. It has glass-and-wood double-doors below a rounded, navy-blue canvas canopy that extends out over the sidewalk. The bay on either side has a wooden door placed next to the windows, and there is a black metal service door at the far west end. The ground floor has a somewhat wider window at the narrow bay than the upper floors. The 2nd floor has footed stone sills at the windows and white stone lintels that step up at the center, adorned with sunbursts, except for the 2nd bay from each side - these instead have lintels that are flat across the top and have garlands flanking the sunbursts.

A stone string course above a fret pattern sets off the 3rd floor, with another setting off the 8th floor. The parapet wall and the brick above the rest of the windows have been repointed. There is a light well on both of the side elevations of the building, with windows lining both of them. The building was converted to a co-op in 1979, with 38 apartments.