514 West 50th Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Neo-Grec cooperative-apartment building completed around 1880. It is faced in pale-orange smooth-stucco, painted beige at the high ground floor. A stoop with brick risers and metal handrails leads to a central entrance with a decorative steel door set in a tile surround. The doorway is framed by a pair of slender, orange-tan stone pilasters with decorative capitals and a cornice across the top. On either side is a double-window with an orange-tan stone surround, and below are beige metal basement service doors.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows with orange-tan stone surrounds including thin sills and cornices. A black iron fire escape runs down the middle two bays of the facade, which is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with paired brackets, modillions, and panels.

The east elevation is faced in the same stucco, and has a slightly-recessed area in the middle (which served as a light well when this elevation was formerly bordered by a neighboring building). It has three single-windows grouped together, with another spaced farther to the north, and a bay of single-windows on both of the short, angled facets. There is a metal railing along the roof line.