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Princeton House Condominium (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 215
 condominium, postmodern (architecture)

188-foot, 17-story Postmodern residential building completed in 1987. Designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, it is clad in red brick, dark-grey metal, and glass, above a 2-story limestone base. Along Broadway the ground floor is divided by stone piers into five tall storefronts bays of black metal and glass. The southwest corner is chamfered, as is the northwest corner above the 8th floor. Following the cut southwest corner, there is a smaller storefront bay on the south facade, and then two more wide storefront bays. The main entrance is in a smaller bay to the east, with glass-and-bronze double-doors and narrow sidelights below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. Next to it is another bay with bronze-framed glass windows. The east end has a section of black metal with a service door, and this corner is also chamfered, setting back to a recessed east wing, the ground floor of which has the entrance/exit to the underground parking garage.

The upper floors on the south facade have a triple-window bay at the west end, with two angled panes at the chamfered corner. This bay has floor-to-ceiling windows with thin, dark-grey metal spandrels between floors, and black air-conditioning vents incorporated into the bases of the eastern two panes. The next to bays to the east have triple-windows as well, and are clad in brick, with thin stone lintels above and black metal air-conditioning vents below - except for the 2nd floor, where the limestone cladding extends up, with light banding on the piers. The next two bays to the east are of the metal-and-glass variety, also with vents, and these two bays are joined by an angled notch in between, both sides having a single glass pane. The east part of the south facade mirrors the west, with two brick triple-window bays, and a glass-and-metal bay, with two angled panes at the southeast chamfered corner. At the main roof line at the 16th floor, there is a band of red brick across the entire facade, also chamfered at the corners. On the east elevation behind the southeast chamfered corner is another 3-pane, metal-and-glass window bay, with a narrow section of brick at the rear where it joins to the 2-bay east wing above the parking garage entry. This wing is clad in brick and both bays have triple-windows like those on the main south facade; the east wing terminates at the 12th floor. The brick cladding extends down to the ground, with no limestone base.

The upper floors of the west facade on Broadway match the south facade at the middle bays (two glass-and-metal bays joined by an angled notch, and two brick bays on either side). The end bays, however, are different. The south one has a triple-window with black metal vents across all three panes, and on either side is a single pane separated by another pane of black glass. The north end has two triple-windows (with vents across two of the panes in each), and a black glass pane to the left of both. Above the 8th floor, the northernmost black glass pane changes to a chamfered corner with two panes of regular glass.

The building is L-shaped above the ground floor, wrapping around the lower level at the northeast corner. The north facade of the north wing has two single panes separated by a black glass pane at the west end. The rest of this elevation is red brick with exposed concrete floorplates, and has a double-window bay and two single-windows bays, with no openings toward the east end. The north-facing elevation of the east wing has five bays of triple-windows (the eastern two at the 12th-story section), and a double-window at the junction of the L. The east-facing elevation of the north wing has three bays of triple-windows (the south one slightly recessed) and a double-window at the north end. The east-facing elevation of the east wing at the south half has no openings on the 12-story section; above and behind there is a double-window, two single-windows, and two more double-windows.

A small 17th-floor penthouse is situated on the south part of the roof, slightly set back from the south facade and also clad in red brick. A tall, brick-clad water tower enclosure rises behind it. The building contains 212 condominium units operated under Greenthal Management. The ground floor along FedEx Office, Broadway is occupied by an AT&T wireless store, and a Chase Bank branch.

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Coordinates:   40°47'38"N   73°58'18"W
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