Glenn Gardens Apartments (New York City, New York)

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329-foot, 32-story mid-century modern residential building completed in 1975. Designed by Seymour Joseph, it has a square tower at the southwest corner of the lot, and a 5-story section to the northeast, stretching along 88th Street. Both were originally clad in red and brown brick and white cast-stone. In 2022, a full re-cladding project on the tower was undertaken, with a new facade of bands of silver-blue glass windows and spandrels of horizontal metal slats between the existing narrow, white vertical bands separating the window bays.

The tower has six bays on each side divided by thin, projecting, white piers of cast-stone. The leftmost bay on each facade, and half of the rightmost bay are faced in white stone, with deeply recessed balconies. This cladding and balcony configuration begins at the 8th floor in the west bay of the south facade on 87th Street and in the south bay of the west facade on the avenue; the rest extend down to the ground level. The lower floors of the west bay on the south facade have narrow double-windows flush against the corner pier, with red brick to the right. The 2nd and 4th bays from the left have wider 4-pane windows, and the other two bays have double-windows.

The west facade has 4-pane windows in the 2nd & 3rd bays from the north, double-windows in the 4th bay, and the 5th bay has 4-pane windows at the 2nd-7th floor, with double-windows above.The north facade has 4-pane windows in the 2nd & 4th bays from the left, and double-windows in the other two middle bays. The east facade has the same arrangement.

The ground floor is recessed on all sides, between the piers. The main entrance is in the 3rd bay from the east on the south facade on 87th Street. It has glass doors, and a rounded glass-and-metal canopy extends out to the sidewalk. The ground floor on the west facade has plate-glass storefront bays, occupied by D is for Doggy boarding, grooming, and training. A courtyard on the north side separates the main tower from the long, 5-story section on 88th Street, which is still clad in red brick. They are connected above by white-stone open-air skybridges at the 2nd-5th floors. The 5-story section has projecting stone balconies at the 3rd & 4th floors on the west end, and also along most of the north facade. The ground floor has several grey metal service doors and secondary entrances, spaced between bays of double-windows.

The complex contains 267 apartment units operated by A&E Real Estate Management.

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