NYU Langone Translational Research Building

 university, office building, commercial building

8-story Renaissance-revival university office building completed in 1922 as the East 30th Street building of the New York Telephone Company, later Verizon. Designed by McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, it is now used by NYU Langone Medicine, who bought the building in 2012. The facades are clad in variegated red brick with a low granite water table. At the center of the south facade on 30th Street is the main entrance, with a steel-framed glass door, revolving door, and sidelights recessed in a large white stone surround. A small glass canopy over the doorway is topped by metal lettering reading "TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH BUILDING". The rest of the ground floor to the east has four large single-windows, and then a bay of paired windows covered by black metal screens, with a service entrance at the east end having a stone surround with dentils across the top. To the west are four large single-windows, a secondary entrance with a black metal door, and then two more windows. The ground floor is topped by a stone cornice that underlines the 2nd-floor windows.

The upper floors have 17 bays of windows, with stone sills. Unlike the ground floor they have continuous brick lintel courses. Another thin stone band creates a sill course at the 5th floor, and there is a larger, dentiled stone cornice topping the 5th floor, where there is a shallow setback. Two more setbacks occur between the outer three bays on each side at the next two floors as well, and the resulting outer towers are crowned by green metal bracketed cornices at the 8th floor, where the three windows on each tower are topped by brick round-arches with stone medallions.

The north facade on 31st Street has a higher stone water table, and a service entrance at the east end, with a black metal door in a stone surround with a dentiled cornice, below a vent. The rest of the ground floor has large single-windows with brick surrounds. The upper floors have ten bays of windows, with trim matching the south facade.