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2536 Broadway (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 200
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5-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1887, along with the similar two buildings to the south. It is clad in red brick above a ground floor with a black stone and glass storefront. The residential entrance is at the far east end of the north facade on 95th Street, partially projecting out as a 1-story extension, with a steel-and-glass door slightly recessed atop two steps. The ground floor on the north facade is painted black at the bottom half of the storefront that extends to the east with two sets of smaller show-windows paired with wider ones; the top half is painted white, and the rest of the ground floor is also white. Next to the residential entrance is a round-arched opening with a red metal service door, and in the middle are a couple vents and filled-in former openings.

The upper floors of the west facade on Broadway have five bays of single-windows. The 2nd floor has joined, grey-painted stone, eared lintels over the outer bays and a separate lintel over the center bay. The outer lintels are topped by scrolls. The 3rd-floor windows have similar lintels but without the scrolls; instead there are grey-painted spandrel panels with foliate ornament between the 3rd & 4th floors. The 4th-floor windows have more of the same lintels, with the outer bays grouped below shallow brick arches. A corbelled brick band course sets off the 5th floor, which has corbelled sections above the keystones. A dark-green metal fire escape runs down the facade, south of center, and the building is crowned by a dark-green metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets, modillions, tall dentils, and a pattern of rosettes.

The upper floors on the wide north facade have four slightly-projecting brick piers with shallow recessed niches at each floor and grey stone panels between floors. There are also narrower brick piers at the ends, both with pairs of vertical grooves at each floor. Between each pier are three bays of single-windows - except that the western one in the east section is replaced by a narrow double-window instead, and there is a bay of small bathroom windows inserted between the eastern two single-windows of the west section. In the middle section the western two windows are spaced closer together. The windows have grey stone sills and eared lintels. There is another fire escape near the east end, and the roof cornice continues on this facade, projecting out around the piers.

The ground floor is occupied by La Nueva Victoria restaurant.
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Coordinates:   40°47'37"N   73°58'19"W
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