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

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 160
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10-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1914. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in tan brick, with subtle banding of slightly-darker colored brick on the 2-story base, above a grey granite water table. The symmetrical facade has a central entrance with glass-and-wood double-doors in a black iron surround. The single-windows to either side are flanked by 2-story, paneled grey granite pillars with beige stylized capitals topped by square panels with heraldic shields, supporting a cornice with dentils and an egg-and-dart molding that also extends across the rest of the 2nd floor. It is topped by balustrades at the center bays (with ornamented stone panels at the piers) and at each of the outer bays. There are two joined double-windows above the doorway. The ground floor has two bays of paired windows to the east, and one such bay to the west, with a black metal service door paired with a window at the west end. The 2nd floor has outer bays with tripartite windows with black iron mullions and grey granite sills.

The upper floors have four single-windows in the middle, with tripartite windows at the outer bays. They have grey stone sills and brick lintels. There are stone balconies with ornamented stone front walls, carried on pairs of console brackets, at the 2nd bay from each end at the 6th floor, and across the middle bays at the 8th floor (with brackets at each pier). The 9th floor is set off by a stone band course and has stone heraldic shields on the piers.

The building is shaped like an H, with a light well at the middle of both the east and west elevations. A 10th-story penthouse is set back on the roof, straddling the middle of the H. The light wells are lined with single-windows, and there is one bay of single-windows on the front section of the east and west facades.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1988, with 36 apartments.
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Coordinates:   40°47'34"N   73°58'12"W
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