58 & 60 Manhattan Avenue (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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A pair of twin 5-story Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in the 1890s. Designed by Leonard Schultze, they are very similar to the building to the north, which was completed as the same time by the same architect. The facades are clad in pale-orange brick, painted brown at the ground floor and dark reddish-brown at the bases. Low stoops split both bases, leading up to entrances with glass-and-iron doors, sidelights, and transoms set in rope moldings and covered by grey canvas clamshell canopies. The doorways are framed by rather short pilasters with Renaissance ornament, similarly ornamented bases, and stylized capitals, carrying a stone surround with a bead molding that frames the transom and canopy. The ground floor has thin, rough-faced stone banding, and there are two single-windows on either side of the entrances, with beige stone surrounds topped by thin cornices.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows between projecting, narrow brick piers with beige stone banding and bases. The windows have stone sills and lintels, and there are stone capitals on the piers at the top of the 4th floor, which is capped by a stone band course. The piers continue at the 5th floor, with smaller capitals; there is brick corbelling above the windows here, and the facades are crowned by black metal roof cornices with brackets, dentils, and a frieze of small rosettes alternating with metopes. There is a black metal fire escape running down two of the bays of both facades.