Rapid Park West 100th Street Parking Garage (New York City, New York)

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3-story parking garage completed in 1912. Designed by Henry J. Howitz in the Arts & Crafts/vernacular style, it is clad in heavily parged brick, painted white on the ground floor and light-grey on the upper floors. The ground floor has a wide, central garage door. To the left two former window openings are filed in with signboard, and there is another on the right, next to a black metal serviced door below metal louvers.

The upper floors have industrial windows with small panes. There are two wide triple-window bays in the middle, and narrower end bays, each outlined in red brick (painted at the 2nd floor). Below the windows both floors have decorative diamond shapes (red outlined in black below the 2nd floor, and green outlined in red below the 3rd). At the center of the facade, between the 2nd & 3rd floors, is a vertical, projecting, 2-sided sign. The roof line has a projecting brick band with a short, narrow section extending down on either side of the end bays. It has a dentil course, and the top gives way to a short, white stone parapet with a metal coping.