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150 West 95th Street (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 150
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10-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1916. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in white brick above a 2-story banded limestone base with a grey granite water table. The facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance with the original black cast-iron and glass double-doors. A single-window on either side is framed by two pairs of wide, fluted 2-story pilasters that carry an entablature across the 2nd floor, with metopes above each pilaster and a roundel in the center panel, surmounted by a cornice. A band course continues to either side, capping the base. Below is a ribbed band with a rosette-like carving at the center of each side. To the outside of the fluted pilasters the base has a bay of double-windows and an end bay of wide single-windows on the east, with black metal service doors at the west end. The windows have geometric iron grilles at the ground floor.

The upper floors have four bays of tripartite windows in the middle, with black iron mullions and narrow end panes that angle back. The end bays have wide single-windows in keyed stone surrounds, with stone spandrels between floors (also framed by keys) that are decorated with roundels and beveled edges. A stone cornice with large dentils sets off the top two floors, where the tripartite windows are flat. Here there are brick-lined, stone spandrels in every bay, with central panels highlighted by roundels. The roof line is marked by a brick parapet above a stone string course, with a stone coping on top; it is stepped up at the end bays, where there are round medallions.

The building is shaped like an H, with the east and west elevations both having light wells at the middles, lined with single-windows. There is also one bay of single-windows on the north and south sections flanking the light wells. The rear, south facade has six bays of tripartite windows. A 10th-floor penthouse is set back from the roof line, straddling the middle of the H, with small sections extending onto the front two wings. The building contains 38 apartments.
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Coordinates:   40°47'34"N   73°58'11"W
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