The Edith Cooperative

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160-foot, 17-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1929. Designed by Margon & Holder, it is clad in beige brick above a 3-story base of light-grey brick. The main entrance is centered on the east facade, with iron-and-glass double-doors flanked by paneled stone pilasters and covered by a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To the south the ground floor has two double-windows flanking a small, narrow window, and to the north there is a single-window, a small window, and a double-window. These ground-floor windows have white iron grilles. The ground floor is capped by a brick-and-stone band course.

The upper floors have five bays of double-windows, as well as a bay of small, narrow windows between the southern two, and another between the center bay and next bay to the north. The windows have white metal framing, and have brick surrounds at the 2nd-3rd floors. The brick spandrels in between these floors are decorated with terra-cotta rosettes. The 3rd floor is topped by a dentiled terra-cotta cornice above a frieze of floral ornament. A few of the double-windows on the upper floors have been replaced with plate-glass panes. The 15th floors is set off by a dentiled cornice, with another cornice marking the lower roof line at the 16th floor. The 17th-floor penthouse is set back above.

The north facade on 101st Street has, from west to east, two double-window bays, a single-window flanked by two smaller windows, a double-window, another of the small windows, another double-window, another small window, and a double-window at the west end bay. They have white iron grilles at the ground floor. All of the trim matches that on the east facade.

The south elevation is windowless, except at a recessed section in the middle, and a lone double-window at the east end of the 11th floor. There is a projecting bay at the east end, with double-windows at a few of the floors, and it is topped at the corner of the roof by a water tower enclosure.

The west facade has, from north to south, a singe-window bay, a double-window, four single-windows, and two more single-windows on the recessed end section. A black metal fire escape runs down the middle of the facade.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1983, with 97 apartments.

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