The Mango

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197-foot, 16-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1929. Designed by Ellis, Aaronson & Heidrich, it is clad in dark-brown brick above a limestone ground floor (with a brown granite water table), and is roughly an H in plan.

The main, south facade has a central entrance with glass-and-metal double-doors set in a molded stone surround and covered by a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There is narrow window on either side in the recessed middle area. The east end of the ground floor has two single-window bays around a paired window bay, with a metal service door between the two eastern bays. The west end has another service door, and a couple of vents. The ground floor is topped by a dentiled cornice.

The upper floors on the south elevation have two single-window bays flanking a bay of three slightly narrower windows in the east wing, and two double-window bays flanking a single-window bay in the west end. There are brick quoins at both corners of each wing, and a projecting, dentiled stone cornice below the 4th floor, with another cornice below the 15th floor. The middle light well above the main entrance has two single-windows, a small bathroom window, and a narrow single-window on its rear wall, and the east-facing side wall has a bay of double-windows and a small bathroom window; there are no windows in the west-facing side wall.

The west facade on the avenue has seven bays of windows, all double-windows except for the second from the south end, which has single-windows; the 3rd from the south is slightly wider, with uneven panes. The double-windows all have aluminum mullions. The rear, north-facing facade has several window bays on both wings, and green metal fire escapes with wide landings running down both. The east facade is plain brick at the front half, with a few single-window and double-window bays at the rear half.

The building contains 154 apartments units, and there is a rooftop terrace on the west wing. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by 710 Quick Stop, Le Jardin Rose floral design, Ground Central Coffee Company, and Park East Cleaners.