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

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / West 95th Street, 55
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10-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1913. Designed by Neville & Bagge, it is clad in light-tan brick above a 2-story, lightly-banded limestone base. The facade is symmetrically divided into two wings by a long, narrow central light well, with the main entrance at its rear. A rounded, brown canvas canopy extends down the length of the light well to the doorway, which has glass-and-wood double-doors. A window on either side is flanked by pilasters, and both the doors and windows have Art-Deco style grilles. The upper floors at the rear of the light well have two bays of double-windows, and the sidewalls have two bays of single-windows near the rear.

The east and west wings have two bays of narrow double-windows flanking middle bays of wider double-windows, with the same style of metal grilles at the ground floor. The easternmost bay is replaced by a black metal service door at the ground floor. The base is capped by a dentiled band course with projecting sections in front of the outer bays on both wings, with acorn-shaped bases hanging down and square posts extending up to frame to bottom parts of the 3rd-floor windows. The windows on the 3rd floor have brick surrounds, and those above have simple stone sills and brick lintels. The middle bays of both wings at the 4th floor are fronted by shallow concrete balconies carried on brackets, with square posts extending up like those at the 3rd floor. Brick spandrel panels between the floors at these middle bays have diamond shapes in the brickwork, within the brick outlines. There are also shallow balconies at the outer bays of both wings on the 8th floor, and patterned brick spandrels in the outer bays between the top two floors. The facade is capped by stone band courses with elaborate pendant-cartouches at the piers.

A 10th-floor penthouse is set far back behind the front light well, and is faced in white stucco. The building was converted to a co-op in 1985, with 48 apartments.
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Coordinates:   40°47'31"N   73°58'1"W
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