Midtown Manor

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115-foot, 11-story Italian-Renaissance style cooperative-apartment building completed in 1929. The main south facade is clad in reddish-brown brick with a light-grey granite water table. It spans six bays of large casement windows with many small panes, with an additional small window placed between the outer two bays on each end. The main entrance is in the 3rd main bay from the west, with wood-and-glass double-doors recessed atop two steps and covered by a rounded, green canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The doors are set in a stone surround. The ground-floor windows have iron grilles, and near the east end there is a narrow secondary entrance with a black metal door.

The 2nd floor is topped by a projecting terra-cotta band with a scrolled foliate pattern, and the 3rd floor has a thin sill course underlining its windows. Between these two bands, each bay has a cream-colored terra-cotta panel with a pattern of vertical bars. A stone cornice sets off the 10th floor, with another cornice marking the lower roof line, this one adorned with roundels. The 11th floor is set back from the cornice, and forms a T-shape on the lower roof.

There are light wells up through the 10th floor on the east and west sides, lined with beige brick. They have a variety of casement windows as well as large and small single-windows. The east elevation overlooking the tunnel exit street has its north and south wings on either side of the light well covered by light-grey metal paneling.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1984, with 75 apartments.