379 Park Avenue South (New York City, New York)

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5-story residential building completed in 1920 as an industrial manufacturing building. The facade is clad in green cast-iron with beige brick end piers, above a ground floor with a metal-and-glass storefront, and a residential entrance on the left with a glass door. The ground floor is topped by a band of green, ribbed metal.

The upper floors have large, tripartite studio windows with extremely narrow colonnettes dividing the end panes except at the 2nd floor where they have been replaced. The iron spandrels between the 3rd & 4th and the 4th & 5th floors have panels and a central diamond-shapes, while above the 5th floor there are only panels, surmounted by a green metal roof cornice with console end brackets, slender brackets in the middle, dentils, and panels. The ground floor is occupied by Marinara restaurant, and Davide Hair Studio.