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Crossbridge at Manhattan Childrens Center (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 124

4-story school building originally completed in 1885 as a commercial building, formerly housing the Beth Hillel Hebrew Institute. It is clad in orange brick above a white-painted stone ground floor. The entrance, at the center, has recessed black metal double-doors flanked by ribbed pilasters with small, stylized capitals. To either side is a bay of paired windows, with a shorter window at the west end, and the east end having a narrow recessed strip running up the full height of the building.

The upper floors have three bays, with single-windows on the 2nd floor, and paired windows on the top two. The 2nd-floor windows are topped by stone round-arches with brick voussoirs. There are stone impost blocks and thin brick keys framing the windows. The 3rd- & 4th-floor windows are divided by thin brick mullions and have spandrels of horizontal banded brick between the two floors. The roof line is marked by a stone coping with a notch cut at the center of each bay below.

The building was converted for private school use in 1971, when it became the Studio Elementary School. The building is now occupied by the Manhattan Childrens Center, a private school for children – ages 5 to 21 – with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and was founded in 2007.
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Coordinates:   40°47'32"N   73°58'9"W
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