Astor Court Cooperative

 apartment building, Georgian (architecture)

156-foot, 13-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative apartment building completed in 1916. Designed by Charles A. Platt, it is clad in reddish-brown brick above a 2-story rusticated limestone base with a light-grey granite water table. The building is U-shaped, open at the east facing the interior of the block, with a central courtyard. There are entrances centered on both West 89th & 90th Streets. They are both slightly recessed in beveled surrounds, with glass doors covered by rounded, green canvas canopies extending out over the sidewalks. Wrought-iron and copper lanterns flank the entrances. To the west of the south entrance is a narrow window, then three regular single-windows, and a plate-glass show-window at the end. To the east is a narrow window, two single-windows, a secondary entrance with a wood-and-glass door, then another single-window, another smaller, narrow window, paired single-windows, and a single-window in the end bay. Except for the show-window, all of the ground-floor windows have wrought-iron grilles, with quatrefoil designs in the single-windows. The upper floors have single-windows above the main entrances (paired windows at the 2nd floor), followed to the west by two single-windows flanking a small bathroom window, a paired-window bay, another single-window, and paired windows in the end bay. To the east are two bays of paired windows, two smaller bathroom windows flanking a single-window, a paired-window bay, and an end bay with single-windows. There is a stone band course capping the base, and brick quoins at the edges of the upper floors. A thinner stone band course runs below the 5th floor, with a flatter string course below the 11th.

To the west of the north entrance is the former opening of the narrow window that is now filled in, followed by three short single-windows, and a show-window at the end, next to a short area of polished red granite. To the east a small, narrow window, two single-windows, a secondary entrance with a wood-and-glass door, another single-window, paired single-windows flanking a smaller, narrow window, and a metal service door at the end paired with a small window; the windows have the same grilles as the south side. The center bay at the 3rd floor is fronted by a projecting stone balcony carried on three brackets, the middle one resting on a lion's head. The balcony has a balustrade with a shield at the center, and eagles on the end posts. The facades are also dotted with protruding air-conditioning units.

The west facade on Broadway is lined by stone, metal, and glass storefronts on the ground floor. The upper floors have a center bay of very narrow double-windows, flanked by two bays of paired windows, a bay of small bathroom windows, three single-windows, another small bathroom window, and two single-windows at the ends. At the 5th floor there are two balustraded stone balconies fronting the three single-windows that are grouped together on both sides, each carried on four brackets, with eagles on the end posts and two shields in between. All three main facades are crowned by a deeply-projecting copper roof cornice with brackets and modillions.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1985, and contains 158 apartments. The ground floor along Broadway is occupied by Pinky New York 89th nail salon, Broadway 89 Cleaners, Experts Print & Ship, Olde Good Things antique store, and a Chase Bank branch.

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