Jardin Central Pre-Assessment Shelter

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6-story Beaux-Arts hotel completed in 1914 as a tenement. Designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, it is clad in buff-colored brick, and there is a near-mirror-image building immediately to the east. The ground floor is banded on the south facade, with a salmon-colored granite water table. The west end has a light-grey metal-and-glass storefront with brick piers dividing glass double-doors from a wide bay of three plate-glass windows. The space directly to the east is salmon-painted stone with a secondary entrance flanked by two small windows. The south facade is divided into a wide west wing and a narrower east wing by a narrow but deep light court, with the main entrance at its rear. The rest of the west wing has two bays of single-windows flanked a paired-window bay on the ground floor, and the east wing has a paired-window bay, a single-window bay, and a double-window bay, all with iron grilles and salmon-colored stone sills. The rear wall of the light court is also salmon-painted stone, and the entrance has metal-and-glass double-doors. The sidewalls have two single-windows and a double-window closer to the front, and the ground floor is capped at both wings by a stone band with a row of shields and torches alternating with ribbed sections.

The south end of the ground floor on the west facade on the avenue continues the grey metal-and-glass storefront, while the north side is salmon-colored stone with a secondary entrance of glass-and-iron double-doors and a transom between narrow windows, and five tall single-windows at the north end, all with wrought-iron grilles. A simpler stone band caps the ground floor here.

The upper floors on the west facade have end bays and a center bay of double-windows. In between the north side has two bays of paired windows, and the south side has one single-window and one bay of paired windows. Another broad stone band, this one with a ribbed section and an egg-and-dart molding along the bottom, sets off the 3rd floor. There are brick spandrels with herringbone patterned brickwork between floors at the double-windows bays. A thinner stone band course sets off the 6th floor, with stone panels with garlands extending down below it at the piers around each double-window bay. The 6th floor has brick-outlined piers, and is topped by a broad stone band with a cartouche above each bay, and paired, scrolled brackets above each pier framing the double-window bays. The facade is crowned by a brick roof parapet and stone coping, stepped up at the end bays, where both have a trio of small, vertical slit openings at each end. A black iron fire escape runs down the two northern paired-window bays.

The upper floors of the south facade on 110th Street have the same ornament and trim. The west wing has a double-window center bay, and to either side is a single-window, a bay of paired windows, and a single-window end bay. The east wing has a bay of paired windows, followed by a single-window and a double-window. There are fire escapes on both wings.

The former Park View Hotel is now the Jardin Central Pre-Assessment Shelter.