The Hopkins

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217-foot, 19-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1930. Designed by George A. Bagge & Sons, it was built a year after the building to the south, with a very similar design. It is clad in reddish-brown brick above a beige-painted limestone ground floor that is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts along the avenue.

The residential entrance is just east of center on the north facade on 79th Street. It has a glass-and-wood door and sidelights atop a dark-grey granite step, and set below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The doors are set in a surround with a top panel featuring an urn flanked by rosettes. This is surmounted by four small brackets and two elongated end brackets carrying a small cornice. There is a bay of paired windows and a bay of double-windows to the left, in black metal framing. To the right is a very small window opening, now filled in with black metal, a somewhat larger single-window also filled in, and a storefront show-window at the west end. The end piers at the ground floor are lightly banded. The storefronts along the avenue are organized into six bays, the wider ones being the two northern bays, and the 3rd bay from the south. Each of these have slightly recessed glass doors in the centers; the two southern narrower storefronts also have recessed, central glass doors, and the other one has a glass door at its south end. They all have sloped green canvas awnings.

The upper floors on the wide west facade almost match of those on the building to the south. They have a center bay of paired windows, flanked by a single-window on either side, and then a bay of double-windows, a bay of paired windows (on the north, one of them is smaller), and end bays with double-windows. A dentiled band course runs across the top of the 3rd floor, and there are 2-story fluted stone pilasters at the 2nd-3rd floors, with stylized capitals, flanking the four double-window bays. The 2nd floor has splayed stone lintels above the center paired windows, and stone surrounds at the double-window bays, with keystones, end brackets, and cornices. There are also stone surrounds at the 4th floor double-windows, without the ornament on top. The facade is dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. A thin string course sets off the 13th floor, where the double-window bays have stone surrounds with fluted sides, balusters between brackets at the bases, and bracketed cornices on top. The center bay has splayed lintels at this floor. A projecting band course caps the 14th floor, and there are simple stone surrounds with keystones at the double-window bays on the 15th floor, along with banded stone end piers. An apparent difference from the neighboring building is the additional floors above the lower roof line at the 15th floor. There are setbacks at the north and south ends (much wider at the north), with the 16th-17th floors extending up without setback in between, and having two bays of single-windows flanked by a bay of double-windows on either side, with stone surrounds at the 17th floor. Above this is a shallow setback to the 18th floor, with the same window configuration. To the north the 16th-18th floors have a bay of double-windows, another of single-windows, and a far north section set farther back with another single-window. Set back again is the penthouse level, faced in white brick. There is a light court at the center of the east elevation, and the penthouse wraps around onto the northeast wing in an L-shape.

The upper floors of the north facade have end bays with double-windows; in between, from east to west, is a bay of paired windows, a bay of single-windows paired with small bathroom windows, a double-window bay, and another bay of paired windows. The stone ornament matches that on the west facade. The top floors above the lower roof line have two bays of double-windows flanking a center bay of paired windows.

The north wing of the east elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick and has end bays of double-windows flanking two bays of single-windows. The light court and south wing are clad in beige brick. The south wing has two bays of double-windows on the lower floors, a setback above the 9th floor, then three bays of single-windows, with the southern one setting back above the 12th floor. Atop the northeast part of the penthouse is a tall mechanical penthouse and water tower enclosure clad in red brick, with three round-arched openings on each side.

The building was converted to condominiums in 2004, with 98 units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Apthorp Cleaners, Stoopher & Boots clothing store, Cafe Noi Espresso Bar, Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream Store, Bagels & Co. bagel shop, and Super Runners.