Clinton Park Stables

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3-story stables completed in the mid-1880s as a stable for the Sanitation Department's horses. It was later used as a cardboard factory, before being reverted to stable use in 2004. It houses 39 carriages on the ground floor, while the upper floors are reserved for 78 horses quartered in 8×10 box stalls, accessed by a steep rubberized incline located just inside the front door.

The facade is clad in brick painted dark grey-brown. The west end of the ground floor has a large garage opening with a roll-down metal gate, next to a tall single-window. To the left are two recessed metal doors, the second one more recessed are located at three small stone steps; both have square windows on top. Following is a double-window topped by a shallow arch, then a metal service door and a narrower garage door (together filling a large, shallow-arched bay with a large keystone), and a wider but shorter garage door. At the east end is a 1-story extension that has another garage door. All the doors and gates at the ground floor, as well as the wooden infill under the arches, are painted bright red, and the windows have planter boxes.

The upper floors have a center bay of paired openings on the 2nd floor (a window on the west, and a narrow door on the east opening onto a fire escape landing) and double-doors on the 3rd floor (also opening onto a landing). To the right are two single-window bays, the second one narrower, and to the left is another set of paired openings (both with windows) on the 2nd floor, and a double-window on the 3rd floor. This bay is framed by projecting brick chimney shafts beginning at the base of the 2nd floor, both with a pair of vertical grooves. Another pair frame the next bay to the west, which has another set of narrow 2nd-floor paired windows and 3rd-floor double-windows. The east side has another narrow 2nd-floor paired window and 3rd-floor double-window bay, and the end bays have wider single-windows. There are outlined brick spandrel panels between the 2nd & 3rd floors, as well as below the 2nd floor at some bays. The 3rd-floor windows are topped by arched lintels, some with dentils. A bright-red metal fire escape runs down the center bay, with a small landing extending up to the roof line.

The long east elevation has 10 bays of short segmental-arched windows (the bottoms of which are bricked-in) and taller segmental-arched openings on the top floor, all of which have been bricked-in. The west elevation is painted grey at the front, while the rest is variegated brown brick. It has six bays of square-headed single-windows.