The Broadmoor (New York City, New York)

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135-foot, 14-story Neo-Classical/Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1926 as The Cornish Arms Hotel. Designed by Walter H. Jackson, it is clad in tan brick above a 2-story limestone base. It spans 13 bays, with the main entrance in the double-wide center bay. It has three sets of black metal-framed glass doors, each paired with a sidelight to the left, below transoms and a large, suspended canopy of grey metal with panels, fleur-de-lis finals along the top, and frosted glass petals hanging from the bottom edge. The bays are framed by 2-story dark-green painted piers, some doubled, and a dark-green painted band tops the base, surmounted by a dentiled cornice. There are freight entrances with metal doors in the end bays, and the others have plate-glass show-windows, with glass double-doors into the commercial spaces in the bays next to the end bays.

Except for the end bays, each bay has a black metal spandrel between the lower two floors, and the 2nd floor has round-arched tripartite windows with dark-green keystones. The end bays both have a small single-window, and the center bay has a wider arch above the main entrance.

The upper floors have 14 bays of single-windows, as well as six bays of smaller bathroom windows spaced between them. There are string courses across the facade below the 4th, 8th, and 13th floors, and the facade is dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. At the 8th floor the two center bays are fronted by a shallow, dark-green stone balcony with three brackets and balustrades. The 13th floor has tall, round-arched double-windows (although those at the western end have been replaced by single panes), with low iron railings across the bases.

The east and west elevations are plain brick, and have three single-windows behind the front section. Two deep light wells at the north facade divide the building into three wings, and each has a differing, set-back penthouse level - the middle one a duplex with a peaked roof. The north facade is painted white, and each wing has two bays of single-windows. There is a double-window at the rea of each light well, and the sides of the wings have three bays of single-windows.

The building has been converted to a co-op, with 75 apartments.