Penn Station South Houses VI (New York City, New York)

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218-foot, 22-story Mid-century modern residential building completed in 1963 as part of the 10-building Penn Station South complex. Designed by Herman Jessor, it is clad in reddish-brown brick. This building takes roughly the shape of a plus-sign, and is basically the same design as Penn South Houses VII to the east, but rotated 90 degrees. The main entrance is at the west end of the south facade of the east wing, with a small area of glass curtain wall projecting out and having glass double-doors and a metal roof.

The east and west wings have exposed white concrete floor plates, while the north and south wings do not. The south wing has a commercial space at the ground floor, with the south facade having an entrance with two glass doors; it is occupied by Empire Pediatric Dentistry.

The upper floors of the ends of the south and north wings have a recessed middle bay with French windows opening onto projecting concrete balconies with metal railings beginning at the 5th floor. To either side is a bay of square double-windows. The sides of the north wing both have two bays of square windows flanking a bay of narrow single-windows, and then a bay of larger double-windows in a slightly projecting section at the junction with the core of the building. The sides of the south wing have a tripartite window bay, a narrow single-window, and a double-window before another double-window in a similar projecting section at the junction with the core. These double-windows in the projecting areas also wrap around to a single pane on the adjacent side.

The ends of the east and west wings have two bays of tripartite windows, and the corners have large, recessed balconies beginning at the 5th floor. There is a setback at the top two floors, with shorter balconies. The north and south sides of these wings have a square window, narrow single-window, and a double-window (with an extra double-window bay at the north facade of the west wing and the south facade of the east wing), before the projecting sections at the junctions.