Musica Nightclub (New York City, New York)

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2-story nightclub originally completed in 1909 as a stable. Designed by James W. Cole, it was converted to a factory in 1940. In 2013, the building was converted to a nightclub called Space NY. It has since houses various clubs including FREQ NYC, Spearmint Rhino, Veil, Orbit, and Musica.

The south facade on 51st Street is clad in brick, painted dark-grey on the ground floor, and with a mural on the 2nd. The ground floor has several various bays of roll-down metal gates, metal service doors, and regular entrance doors. The east half of the building is taller, and the four large former openings on the 2nd floor have been painted over by the mural. The roof line of the slightly shorter west section has corbelled brick cornices below three recessed panels, the middle one higher, and the metal coping is stepped up in the center.

The west facade on Twelfth Avenue has two large bays with roll-down metal gates at the south half of the ground floor. The north half has two bays with tall windows next to a pair of entrances, the south one with a glass-and-metal door, sidelight, and transom, and the north one with glass-and-metal double-doors and transom. The 2nd floor has five bays of large triple-windows, not painted over by the mural. There are similar recessed panels above corbeled cornices at the roof line, with the middle three higher. A large, 2-sided, angled billboard rises from the roof.