164 West 79th Street

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150-foot, 15-story Renaissance-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1924. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in tan brick and terra-cotta with a grey granite water table. The facade has double-windows in the end bays, divided by black metal mullions. In between the 3-story base has a center bay of paired windows, flanked by single-windows and another bay of paired windows on either side. The upper floors are slightly different, with four bays of paired windows between the end bays. The windows all have simple stone sills.

At the ground floor the central entrance has bronze-and-glass double-doors atop two granite steps, below a rounded, dark-red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The doors are framed in a stone surround, with florid carvings in a stone panel above (with a central escutcheon), surmounted by a dentiled cornice and stone shield with the number "164". The entry is flanked by 2-story fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals, supporting an entablature at the top of the 2nd floor that has garlands, small wreaths, and another dentiled cornice. To the left of the entrance, one of the paired windows at the ground floor is replaced by a narrow wood-and-glass door, accessing a commercial space occupied by CommuniKids speech pathology. The windows on either side have planter boxes on the sills. The granite water table grows higher toward the west due to the slope of the site, and as such, has three low basement openings near the sidewalk, to the right of the main entrance. At the far west end a gated basement service door is inserted into the water table. Atop the 2nd-floor cornice in the center bay is a stone surround with scrolls at the lower part, and a stone panel in between the windows. The 3rd floor is capped by a scalloped terra-cotta band course.

There are small terra-cotta shields below the end bays at the 6th & 11th floors. A projecting terra-cotta balustrade fronts the windows at the middle three bays on the 8th floor, carried on four large brackets. There is another at the 14th floor, joined by shorter versions at the end bays. At the top two floors the end bays have 2-story stone surrounds, with escutcheons in the spandrels between these floors. The facade is dotted with some protruding air-conditioning units.The roof line is marked by a terra-cotta cornice with shallow triangular pediments at the end bays.

The side elevations are clad in lighter brick, with wide and shallow light wells in both. The front part of the west elevation has a bay of single-windows, with another at the rear, and the light well is lined with double- and single-windows.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1978, with 60 apartments.