435 West 43rd Street

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5-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1882. It is clad in red brick with white stone trim. A low stoop of grey stone steps at the center leads up to a black wood-and-glass door with a sidelight and transom, framed by a stone surround with slender, grey granite columns at the sides. They have small Corinthian capitals, and the lintel over the doorway has a segmental-arched, sawtooth bottom edge, with a small rosette at each end. This is surmounted by an entablature and cornice that interrupts the dentiled band course running below the 2nd floor. To either side of the entrance is a large single-window topped by a peaked, bracketed stone pediment with an arched band of dentils along the bottom. The basement level is stone and white-painted brick, with an entrance to the left of the stoop.

The upper floors have single-window end bays, with paired windows in the middle, all in aluminum framing. The end bays at the 2nd floor have peaked, bracketed pediments, while the middle windows are topped by a stone lintel with decorative brackets, shallow arches over the two window openings, and a panel on top with carved foliate ornament. The 3rd floor has a stone band course at its base, extending around the projecting trip at the middle bays. The middle bay also projects slightly at the 3rd floor, with brick piers and stone lintels topped by two white terra-cotta panels, each with a trio of decorative floral squares, in turn surmounted by a stone band and wrought-iron railing. The end bays have white terra-cotta spandrel panels between the 3rd & 4th floors, with a grid of small floral square around a central, larger square. The 4th-floor windows are topped by bracketed pediments in a differing style than those at the 2nd floor, with the ends flaring upwards.

Another band course underlines the 5th floor, which has a lintel course that projects above each window and has small rosettes in between. The facade is crowned by a brown metal roof cornice with brackets, and segmental-arched brick notched sections above each window.