230 West 99th Street

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7-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1900. The facades are clad in beige brick above a 2-story limestone base painted light-grey. The ground floor is lightly rusticated, and lined with metal-and-glass storefronts on Broadway. The main entrance is at the center of the north facade on 99th Street, with a wide 2-step stoop spanning across the basement areaways on either side. It has a glass door and sidelights, below a large transom, in a grey-painted stone surround. A portico is formed by paired columns in front of the facade, sharing paneled plinths. The columns are fluted at their lower sections, with Ionic capitals; the flat pilasters behind each column have the same fluting. The plinths and capitals are painted grey, and the columns support an entablature topped by a grey cornice and egg-and-dart molding, surmounted by a stone balcony railing at the 2nd floor, with quatrefoil cutouts between the paneled end posts.

To the east the ground floor has a single-window, a black metal service door atop a small set of steps, and three more single-windows. To the west there is a single-window, a commercial storefront entrance atop a small metal stoop, followed by a very narrow opening and three single-window openings all filled-in, and a short glass-and-metal storefront section at the end.

The upper floors have a narrow single-window in the center. To the east are two pairs of single-windows grouped roughly together, and another single-window in the end bay. To the west is a narrower single-window paired with a smaller window, two regular-sized single-windows grouped together, and two more single-windows at the end. On the 2nd floor the windows have grey-painted, scrolled keystones, except for the small center bay, which has a grey-outlined stone surround topped by a grey-painted lion's head surround by foliate ornament, and the narrow window paired with a small one lacks keystones, instead having a small, grey-painted, square panel below the smaller window, with foliate ornament. A simple band course tops the 2nd floor.

The floors above the base all have cream-colored terra-cotta surrounds at the windows, with bead moldings and egg-and-dart moldings. Those at the center bay have wreath-wrapped shields below the windows, with a small cornice at the 3rd floor and bracketed sills at the other floors, as well as cartouches at the top two floors. The bay with the narrow window and smaller window has similar shields below the smaller window. The end bays, as well as the first group of paired windows at the west side, and the western group of paired windows on the east side, have rounded pediments at the 3rd floor (with escutcheons), cornices on the 4th, 5th, & 7th floors, and triangular pediments on the 6th floor. The other bays have smaller cartouches at each floor. The 6th floor is set off by a dentiled band course, and the roof line is marked by a simple brick parapet and coping. A black metal fire escape runs down the two bays west of the center bay.

The west facade on Broadway has six single-windows roughly grouped into three pairs. The ornament follows the designs on the north facade, with pediments at the outer two pairs, and small cartouches at the middle pair.

The building contains 21 apartment units. The ground floor along Broadway is occupied by Cork & Barrel wine & spirits, and Cohen's Fashion Optical, with the commercial space next to the entrance on 99th Street occupied by Heights Barber Shop.