Allenhurst Apartments (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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135-foot, 12-story Romanesque/Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1912 as an apartment-hotel. Designed by Rouse & Goldstone, it opened as the Midway Hotel, and is clad in light-beige brick and terra-cotta above a 2-story base and basement level of limestone painted a cream color.

The main entrance is just right of center on the north facade on 100th Street. A metal-framed glass door and wide sidelights below a fanlight with intricate wrought-iron decoration are located atop two wide granite steps and recessed in a round-arch. The projecting entry surround is lined with quoins at the outer edges and the inner edges along the arch, and topped by a modillioned cornice surmounted by a balustrade at the 2nd floor. There are paired windows above the entrance bay. To the west are three bays of paired windows and a single-window end bay. To the east are four bays of paired windows and another single-window end bay. A broad band course separated the basement from the ground floor, with the narrow basement areaways on either side of the entrance set behind an iron railing with two thick, horizontal bars and stone posts. The ground-floor and 2nd-floor windows have low, black wrought-iron railings. The two center bays have small, narrow windows inserted between the window pairs.

The 3rd floor is set off by a band course and is banded with stone at the piers, with beveled stone surrounds at each window. An elaborate cornice tops the 3rd floor, with a leafy pattern and a lower edge with bellflowers and spikes. The upper floors have splayed brick lintels with stone imposts. At the 6th & 9th floors, the two center bays and outer paired-window bays have projecting, black iron balconies with console brackets, rosettes on the underside, and decorative railings. The 10th floor is set framed on the bottom by a dentiled cornice and the top by a broader cornice with larger dentils. There are subtle cross-hatch patterns of slightly-darker brick on the piers. The top two floors have 2-story fluted pilasters framing the window bays; the 12th-floor windows are round-arched and paired under larger arches with medallions below the apexes. The same cross-hatch pattern is on the piers, and around the arches. The spandrels between the top two floors are pale-green with roundels. The facade is crowned by a pale-green stone cornice with modillions and dentils.

The west facade on Broadway has metal-and-glass storefronts on the ground floor. The upper floors have six single-windows, with ornament matching that on the north facade. The balconies are across the middle bays. The east elevation is clad in slightly-darker beige brick, with a bay of double-windows at the front, and two single-windows farther back.

The ground floor on Broadway is occupied by Happy Angel Nail Spa, Naruto Ramen, and Manhattan Valley restaurant.

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