136 West 75th Street

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6-story Neo-Georgian cooperative-apartment building completed in 1921. Designed by Bethlehem Engineering Corp., it is clad in red brick with a low limestone basement at the sidewalk level. The central entrance is inserted between the facades, four main bays, with a 3-over-5 paned glass-and-wood door, sidelights and a fanlight atop one granite step. A rounded, green canvas canopy covers the fanlight, and pilasters with stylized capitals separate the sidelights from the door. The ground floor has single-windows in the four bays, with iron grilles, stone sills, and splayed stone lintels with keystones. Below each is a very short basement window, also with iron grilles. A black metal service door is inserted at the west end.

The upper floors are set off by a limestone band course with an iron railing along the top. The two middle bays have tall tripartite windows with dark-grey iron mullions, stone sills, small iron railings across the bottoms, and brick lintels. The outer bays have shorter double-windows also with grey mullions. Another stone band course sets off the top floor, where there is a stone cornice serving as a shallow balcony, topped by an iron railing. At the top floor all four bays have double-windows, and each bay is framed by a vertical columns of brick, while each pier is framed by smaller brick columns with stone at the top and bottom. The roof line is marked by a stone balustrade.

The building contains 30 apartments.