Marboro Apartments

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150-foot, 16-story Italian Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1924. Designed by George F. Pelham, it is clad in brown brick, with a grey-painted stone water table. The central entrance has glass-and-wood double-doors atop two stone steps, and framed by a stone surrounds painted the same grey as the water table. A rounded, navy-blue canvas canopy extends out over the sidewalk. The upper floors have four bays of paired windows in the middle, and wider end bays. On the ground floor, the inner window of the center two bays are replaced by the entrance. At the west end there is a black metal service door down a couple of steps, interrupting the water table.

A stone sill course runs below the 2nd floor, with the windows on the floors above having individual stone sills. The 5th floor is set off by a stone band course stopped by a row of dentils and a cornice, and a thin dentil course underlines the 14th floor. The main roof line at the 15th floor is marked by a cream-colored stone cornice with brackets and dentils, and cresting along the top. The 16th-floor penthouse level is set back from the cornice, with a water tower on its roof.

There are light wells on the east and west elevations, lined with single- and double-windows. The rear, north-facing facade has foiru bays of three windows each. The building was converted to a co-op in 1984, with 62 apartments.