Penn Station South Houses VIII (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. The building takes the form of double cross, with the main entrance at the center of the west facade, with glass doors. The four projecting wings (two to the west and two to the east) have exposed white concrete floor plates, while the rest of the facade does not, except for the middle of the east facade.

The ends of each of these four wings have two bays of tripartite windows, with recessed concrete balconies with metal railings at the ends. The top two floors are set back, with shorter balconies. The north and south facades of each wing have a square window, a narrow single-window, and a double-window, with an extra square window bay on the north face of the northeast wing, and the south face of the southwest wing. There are also small projecting sections at the inner junctions of each wing with the main core of the building, each with a double-window that wraps around the corner for another pane. The outer junctions on the west side also have projecting bays.

The ends of the north and south wings have three bays of square 2-over-2 windows, with setbacks at the top two floors. The sides of these wings have two square windows flanking a narrow single-window. The middle east elevation (between the wings) has three single-windows in the center, followed to either side by a double-window, a tripartite window, and then a more recessed bay of tripartite windows paired next to a single-window. The middle west elevation (between the wings) has a center bay of projecting balconies, followed to either side by a tripartite window, a wide single-window, and a double-window.