The Greenwich

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7-story Beaux-Arts cooperative-apartment building completed in 1900. Designed by Neville & Bagge, it matches the slightly wider building directly to the north, except for the loss of the roof cornice and different paint at the ground floor. The facade is clad in red brick with beige terra-cotta trim above a ground floor of banded limestone painted a cream color, with the rough-finished basement level in dark red. A very low stoop leads to a glass-and-metal door and sidelights. They are framed by fluted pilasters, with fluted columns in front forming a portico, the entablature of which has floral ornament and a bracket at each end.

To either side of the entry is a rounded bay of two windows; the north bay also has two basement windows behind an areaway enclosed by an iron fence. The upper floors have two windows in the flat center section, and still has two windows in the curved outer bays. The 2nd floor has horizontal banding that also crosses the window surrounds, which have splayed tops and are surmounted by rounded pediments in the middle bays and triangular pediments in the rounded outer bays. A stone band course caps the 2nd floor.

On the 3rd-6th floors the three sections are edged in terra-cotta keys. At the curved outer bays the 3rd-floor windows are topped by splayed lintels with scrolled keystones surmounted by cartouches with scrolls that support projecting sills at the windows above, which have wrought-iron railings. The 4th, 5th, & 6th floors also have splayed lintels with scrolled keystones and projecting sills. The center-bay windows are individually framed by terra-cotta keys and those on the 3rd & 5th floors have elaborate lintels with wreaths and console brackets; the windows have been lowered to fit air-conditioning units into the surrounds. The 4th-floor windows have ornamented round-arches on top, surmounted by cartouches and scrolls, and there are panels with roundels below the windows.

The 7th floor is set off by a band course and has banding and surrounds like the 2nd floor, but without pediments. A red metal fire escape runs down the flat center bays, and the facade's original roof cornice has been removed, leaving a plain stone parapet topped by a metal railing.

The building was converted to a co-op in 2002, with 35 apartments.