Gramercy Square Condominium (New York City, New York)

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A complex of four residential buildings completed in 2016 as a renovation of existing buildings by Woods Bagot, with landscaping by M. Paul Friedberg & Partners for The Chetrit Group with Clipper Equity. Some of the buildings are reused/rebuilt from the former Columbus-Italian Hospital Division of the Cabrini Medical Center which occupied the site from 1972 until 2008. The oldest building actually dates back to 1931.

The complex comprises four architecturally distinct buildings—The Tower, The Boutique, The Prewar, and The Modern, with a total of 223 apartment units between the four buildings.

The tallest of the group is The Tower, at 215 East 19th Street, rising 240 feet and 16 floors. It is set back from the street, and clad in glass with bronze framing, with uninterrupted stone piers framing bays of alternating widths - 9 bays spanning the north facade and 12 on the south, due to an east wing with three additional small bays. On 19th Street, a semi-circular drive accesses the main entrance, below a bronze canopy. The three eastern bays have individual windows at each floor, unlike the vertical curtain walls of glass at the other bays. The west and east facades also have glass curtain wall strips at the middle bays, and horizontal metal spandrels dividing the floors at the outer two bays on each side.

Also facing 19th Street is The Prewar, in an Art-Deco style at 225 East 19th. It has nine stories, and is clad in beige brick above a 2-story limestone base (with a low basement level as well). The entrance at the center is deeply recessed in a round-arch atop a long stretch of steps, and covered by a bronze canopy. To either side is a service door, topped by narrower round-arches with windows at the 2nd floor. Continuing outward the base has a bay of very small windows, and then four bays of narrow double-windows. The middle three bays extend up to the 3rd floor, with narrow, paired round-arched windows, as well as another small, narrrow square-headed window on either side. A dentiled stone cornice caps the base, extended up to the 3rd floor at the center. The upper floors have 13 bays of double-windows, with setbacks at the ends, and a crenelated roof line.

The two smaller buildings on 20th Street are The Modern at 230 East 20th at seven stories, and The Boutique at 220 East 20th at eight floors. The Modern is clad in bronze-toned metal, with brown brick at the ground floor. A glass canopy covers the entrance, with bronze-colored fencing fronting the other six ground-floor bays. The upper floors have large tripartite windows in eight bays outlined by projecting bronze surrounds. The top floor is set back with a terrace in front.

The Boutique is clad in beige brick above a rusticated stone ground floor (and basement level in red granite). The entrance is at the east end, with a bronze canopy. To the right are two tall window bays, followed by four shorter windows with basement windows below. At the west end is a recessed service entrance with a metal door. The upper floors have four wide bays of four windows each, in bronze framing. The outer bays set back above the 7th floor. There is another bay of triple-window at the front end of the west facade, beginning on the 2nd floor.

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