67 & 71 West 109th Street

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A pair of similar 6-story Renaissance-revival residential buildings completed together in 1906. Designed by Samuel Sass, they are both clad in white-painted brick (with red-painted metal paneling at the ground floor of No. 71, which is situated slightly higher due to the slope of the street). No. 71's facade is also slightly wider.

No. 67 has a centered entrance behind two stone steps with brick risers (and low, grey-painted stone sidewalls) that spans the basement areaways on either side. It has a metal-and-glass door, sidelight, and transom framed by grey-painted, fluted pilasters with stylized capitals carrying a simple entablature and cornice, also painted grey. To either side the ground floor has a double-window and a single-window, with iron grilles. The basement level has two single-windows on each side. The upper floors have six bays of single-windows, with the 3rd window from the west shorter on each floor. The 2nd floor has a thin stone sill course and a larger band course sets off the 3rd floor. There are ribbed, splayed stone lintels with scrolled keystones at the 2nd-5th floors. The 6th floor is set off by a flat stone sill course and has beveled stone surrounds at the end bays (with scrolled keystones), and the other four windows have flat splayed lintels with scrolled keystones. A black metal fire escape runs down three of the bays, and the facade is topped by a plain parapet where the roof cornice originally stood.

No. 71 has a matching entrance at its east end, but with an extra step in front. To the left the ground floor has a restaurant space, with a glass door at the east end (with metal steps next to the main entrance's stone steps). The rest of the restaurant space has three bays of tripartite plate-glass windows between metal piers. There is chamfered corner at the southwest, with another glass door.
The upper floors have nine single-windows, with another single-window in the chamfered corner, the edges of which are lined with dentil-like quoins from the 2nd-6th floors. The 2nd-floor windows all have ribbed, splayed stone lintels with scrolled keystones, as do the windows on the 3rd-5th floors except for those in the outer two bays on each side. These have hooded lintels with acanthus-leaf brackets and foliate-carved spandrels panels connecting to projecting sills. Like No. 67, the 6th floors has beveled surrounds at the outer bays, and scrolled keystones. The bracketed, brown metal roof cornice remains, including wrapping around onto the narrow, chamfered corner. The south facade has a black metal fire escape at the middle.

The west facade is exposed above the 1-story commercial building in front, and angled back through the middle of the block. It is faced in light-grey stucco and has a large, angled light well at the middle, with single-windows in the sidewalls, and another two single-windows near the north end. The ground-floor restaurant space in No. 71 is occupied by Homemade Taqueria.