The Garage (New York City, New York)

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3-story commercial building completed in 1910 as a factory. Designed by Ross & McNeil, the 3-story section is actually set back behind a 1-story front that is clad in dark-grey brick. Its south facade has four main bays, with metal service doors in the outer two, a loading dock with a roll-down metal gate in the 2nd-from-east bay, and the main entrance in the 2nd-from west bay, with glass-and-metal double-doors set in black metal infill. A metal railing tops the roof line's metal coping. At the east end is a 1.5-story section that is set farther back behind a brick wall and gated chain-link fence, also clad in grey-painted brick. It has a narrower loading dock, and a door below a square opening that is now filled-in. The metal coping at the roof line is painted white. The west facade of the 1-story front section is concrete and also painted dark-grey.

The 3-story rear building is clad in variegated light reddish-brown brick. Its south facade, overlooking the 1-story front section, has 11 bays of single-windows, with flat, beige stone sills and lintels. A white metal railing marks the roof line. The west facade has another three bays of windows, and a north bay of larger openings that have been bricked-in. The north facade is similar at its west end, with the same brick and four bays of windows (none at the ground floor). To the east, the rest of this facade is painted beige and has a few more window bays.