175 West 92nd Street | apartment building

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7-story early-modern/Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1941. Designed by Horace Ginsbern, it is the southern building in a near-twin 2-building complex (the notable differing being that the south building has 7 floors, while the north building has only 6). The two separate buildings are connected by a common shared basement with laundry, tenant storage and bicycle storage, and a 1-story storefront in the middle, facing the avenue. The facade is clad in red brick with banded brown brick in the spandrels between floors.

The highlight is the main entrance, east of center on the south facade. It has stainless-steel double-doors, each with three large portholes. The doors are framed by a notched, white stone entrance surround with banded rounded quarter columns. The surround is flanked by a 5-step planter on both sides and set within a red granite frame with porthole windows at either end and the building’s address in large, thin Italic lettering.

The low ground floor has two single-windows to the east of the entrance, and to the west is a single-window, two double-windows of different widths, a very narrow single-window, and another single-window. The upper floors are the same except for having double-windows in the end bay (wrapping around the corner), a double-window in the bay left of the entrance, and another very narrow window in the next bay. Above the 2nd floor the double-window left of the entrance shifts over slightly to the east, and another single-window is inserted between it and the narrow window. The upper floors east of the entrance have double-windows in both bays. The area above the entrance is recessed from the 3rd-7th floors, and has a double-window on the left, and two single-windows on the right, the second one being of the very narrow variety. There are also single-windows in the narrow side elevations of the recessed area, which is fronted by a brown metal fire escape. The facade is capped by a metal coping.

The north part of the ground floor along the avenue has storefront bays between rounded, fluted concrete columns. Near the center is a recessed area that runs the full height of the building, and the south end has a double-window, a narrow single-window, and then a narrower double-window at the end, wrapping around from the corner. The upper floors at the north end have double-windows at the end, wrapping around the corner, followed by two double-windows flanking a single-window. The recessed area has two metal service doors, the south one with a banded brick surround. The upper floors have two single-windows (the north one narrower) and also single-windows on the narrow side elevations, with another fire escape.

The north elevation, rising over the 1-story storefront connection, has red brick at the edges and tan brick in the middle. From west to east there is a bay of single-windows, a narrower single-window bay, two more single-windows, and a double-window. The east half is somewhat recessed, and has three more double-windows. There are two fire escapes on this facade.

The east elevation, clad in brown brick (except for red brick at the south end) has a small light well in the middle. The section to the south of the light well has two single-windows, and to the north there is one.

Both buildings were converted to a co-op in 1982, with a total of 91 apartments. The ground floor at the south building is occupied by Six60One restaurant at its northern half.