450 Ninth Avenue Complex

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A group of 12 (mostly 5-story) residential buildings built around the same time (1870), and now operated as one apartment complex. They have different designs, but mostly share a basic Renaissance-revival/Queen Anne style, with a few exceptions: the upper floors have been demolished at the southernmost building on the avenue (450 Ninth) and 458 Ninth, leaving only the ground-floor commercial spaces. No. 460 may have had its upper floors rebuilt, as they don't match the other facades and only rise to the 4th floor. 369 West 35th also has only four floors, and is built in a simpler style. Included in the group are also two rear buildings.

369 West 35th's original appearance was as a pair of 3-story townhouses with high stoops, parlor-floor entrances, and raised basements. The stoops, which were next to each other, have been removed, and the parlor-floor entrances replaced by double-windows. The basement level is now the ground floor, clad in corrugated black metal paneling. The main entrance is where the western stoop originally was, with a black metal-and-glass door. At either end is a storefront with a glass door down a couple steps from the sidewalk. The upper floors are clad in red brick and have six bays of single-windows (except for the two double-windows at the now 2nd floor). They all have dark-green stone sills and metal cornices (the cornice is missing at the easternmost 3rd-floor window, and the sill from the second window from the west at the 2nd floor). The facade is crowned by a pair of matching, modillioned, dark-green metal roof cornices.

The small 1-story structure now at 450 Ninth Avenue is faced in grey stone, with a metal-and-plate-glass storefront on the west facade. The three 5-story buildings at 452-456 Ninth Avenue are clad in red brick above black iron-and-glass storefronts. Next to each storefront is a glass door to the upper floors.

No. 452 has three bays of single-windows on the upper floors, with white stone sills and lintels. A black metal fire escape runs down the northern two bays of the facade, which is crowned by a light-green metal roof cornice with console brackets, modillions, dentils, and panels.

Nos. 454 & 456 both have four bays of single-windows, with the middle bays slightly recessed between the outer bays. They have white stone sills and hooded lintels, some of which have delicate scroll ornament at No. 456. There are ornate red terra-cotta spandrel decorations between the 3rd & 4th floors at the outer bays of No. 454, with shorter terra-cotta panels between the 2nd & 3rd. Below the outer bays of the 5th floor are narrow, wider bands of patterned terra-cotta. No. 456 instead has variations of corbelled brick spandrels at the outer bays. Both facades have a black metal fire escape running down the middle two bays, and both are crowned by light-green metal roof cornices, of different designs. No. 454's has a variety of brackets and panels, along with dentils at the stepped-up center section, and a field of grid-like corbels. No. 456's is set slightly higher, and has garlands and other ornament in the lower panels, console brackets, a central sunburst, and a higher stepped-up middle section.

No. 458 is only one floor, with a black-painted stone facade and a storefront with double-doors at the south end. No. 460 has a restaurant storefront of black metal-and-glass, with a residential door at the south end. The three upper floors are clad in orange-red brick and have three bays of single-windows with white stone sills and lintels. It is crowned by a simpler green metal roof cornice with small, paired console brackets and panels with roundels.

Nos. 462 & 464 are very similar, with 5-story red-brick facades and four bays of single-windows above the ground floors of white stone and black metal-and-glass storefronts. The residential entrance to No. 462 is at its north end. The main difference between the upper floors is that white quoins group the window bays of the 2nd-4th floors into two pairs at No. 462, and at No. 464 they are grouped into the three northern bay and then the single south bay. There are continuous white stone sills and lintels with white metal cornices across each group. A small, black metal fire escape runs down only the south bay of No. 464. The 5th floors have splayed brick lintels and scrolled white keystones. The facades are crowned by a pair of matching, bracketed, green metal roof cornices. There is a brick parapet rising above the cornice at No. 464.

The north facade of No. 464 (also knows as 364 West 36th Street) has a short return of the ground-floor storefront at the west end, bordered by stone quoins. To the left is a former service door and high-set, small, arched window, now both bricked-in. There are white stone quoins around the former door, and a panel on top with a decorative iron grille. Farther left is the residential entrance, with a black wood-and-glass door deeply recessed atop a set of grey stone steps. This doorway is also framed in white stone, with quoins at the right edge, and another decorative panel to the right. The east end of the ground floor has a glass-and-metal storefront. The upper floors are set off by a stone band, and have three middle bays of single-windows and outer bays of paired windows, all with white stone quoins at the 2nd-4th floors. They also have white metal cornices, and there is a projecting brick chimney shaft at the west end beginning at the 4th floor. The 5th-floor windows have a continuous sill course and splayed brick lintels with scrolled keystones. The roof cornice continues onto this facade.

Separated by a narrow alley, the building at 362 West 36th is also five floors, with a facade in the same style. The ground floor is white stone, with a metal-and-glass storefront on the right. The entrance on the left has a black metal-and-glass door in a black stone surround, atop a small stoop of grey stone steps with black stone sidewalks and iron handrails. Above the entry, a pair of console brackets carries a stone cornice that serves as a base for the black metal fire escape that runs down the east bay of the facade. This bay has single-windows on the upper floors, and there is a bay of paired windows to the right. The trim all matches that on 364 West 36th, including the roof cornice.

The ground floors of the various buildings are occupied by Tamara of Mane Advocates, H-Yard Gourmet Deli, Plan 452 Laundromat and Dry Cleaner, Midtown Smoke Shop & Vape, Sergimmo Salumeria deli, Break Bar "smashing bar", Zoob Zib Thai Noodle Bar, Sushi Star, and Vito's pizzeria.