The Central Park Studios

 cooperative, apartment building

14-story Nee-Renaissance with Gothic elements cooperative-apartment residential building completed in 1905 as artist studios. Designed by Simonson, Pollard & Steinam, it is clad in variegated brick (with a pattern of projecting brick laid on end) and terra-cotta (primarily at the top floors) above a 2-story limestone base.

There is an exposed basement behind a shallow "moat" enclosed by a grey-green iron fence with Gothic styling. The facade has end bays with double-windows, and four single-window bays in the middle - the center two grouped closer together. At the limestone base, with middle two bays are replaced by a narrow single-window on both lower floors (on the left) and a projecting entrance vestibule (on the right) ornamented with Gothic arches, pinnacles, bosses, and gables. The base is topped by a stone band with small, square floral panels.

The notable feature of the upper floors is the rhythmic pattern of pulled bricks. The windows bays are all slightly-recessed between angled edge enframements of banded brick and stone. Between the 5th & 6th floors the piers are decorated with some small square panels of projecting, carved stone hooded heads with grotesque faces, repeated between the 8th & 9th floors.

Projecting stone bands frame the 12th floor at top and bottom, and on the 13th-14th floors there are beige terra-cotta Gothic arches, gables, and buttresses.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1974, with 31 apartments.