433 West 34th Street (New York City, New York)

 high-rise, apartment building, 1931_construction

190-foot, 20-story Art-Deco cooperative-apartment building completed in 1931. Designed by Sugarman & Berger, it is clad in brown brick on the south facade (with a grey granite water table) and south part of the west facade, with beige brick on the rest. The 9-bay south facade on 34th Street has the main entrance in the center bay, with black wood-and-glass double-doors below a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk, framed by 2-story, fluted limestone pilasters. The other bays on the ground floor have either secondary or service entrances, or storefronts, and are covered by a pair of wide, rounded, green canvas awnings.

The upper floors have double-windows with thin, black iron mullions. The center bay in framed in limestone and topped by a scrolled keystone; the pilasters are topped by the ends of a broken rounded pediment framing the 3rd-floor window, which has a thin stone surround. The three bays on either side have outlines in a pattern of recessed bricks at the 2nd-3rd floors, and spandrels between these floors with checkerboards of recessed and projecting bricks.

The 4th floor is set off by a thin stone band course, and there is a brick band course between the 13th & 14th floors. The facade is heavily dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. A dentiled band course runs above the 16th floor, where the outer three bays set back. The middle bays set back above the 18th floor.

The south section of the east facade facing Dyer Avenue has no openings. Up to the 6th floor it is faced in concrete, where an adjoining building once stood, before the avenue was constructed through the block. The north section of the east facade is recessed, and has three bays of double-windows alternating with a single-window bay and a bay of smaller bathroom windows. There is a small setback above the 9th floor, and the 10th-17th floors have a single-window, a double-window, a thinner single-window, and another double-window. There is a final setback above the 17th floor. The north-facing rear wall of the south section has a single-window paired with a smaller bathroom window up to the 9th floor, and from there continues with an extra single-window up to the 17th-floor setback. The west facade is very similar.

The north facade has five bays of double-windows, and single-window end bays. Above the 9th-floor setback there are two double-window bays, with a single-window at each end bay, and a smaller bathroom window paired to the eastern double-window.

The building, originally called Haddon Hall, was converted to a co-op in the 1980s, with 209 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Westlake Cleaners, and River Food Market.