170 West 76th Street

 interesting place, apartment building

9-story Neo-Federal cooperative-apartment building completed in 1926 as the Park West Hospital. Designed by Butler & Stein, it is clad in variegated red-brown brick above a limestone ground floor. The 9th floor and rooftop terrace were added when the building was converted to residential use by Stephen B. Jacobs for Alan Sackman in 1974.

The ground floor has a central entrance with a wood-and-glass door set between pilasters with a pattern of small incised squares, and is covered by a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To the right is a window with an iron grille, and there is another to the left, with a brown metal service door at the east end. A band course caps the ground floor.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows with simple stone sills and brick lintels. Air-conditioning vents are cut below the west end bay and the 2nd bay from the east. The 8th floor is set off by a corbelled band course, and has two bays of tall triple-windows in stone surrounds. There are two very small windows in between. Low stone pediments top both of the bays, rising slightly above the roof line. The 9th floor is set back above the lower roof line, faced in white stucco with large plate-glass windows, and two bays of angled skylights above.

The building contains 22 apartments.

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