The Collective

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6-story residential building completed in 1926. Designed by James E. Ware & Son as a tenement, it is clad in grey-painted brick with some metal-and-glass storefronts at the ground floor. The main entrance is just east of center on the south facade, with red wood-and-glass double-doors atop a long, 2-step stoop with wrought-iron railings. It has an engaged, rounded molding flanked by flat pilasters carrying a rounded pediment broken by a cartouche. The upper floors have, from west to east, a single-window bay, a narrow double-window bay, two more single-windows, a bay of smaller windows, two more regular-sized single-window bays, and a narrow double-window end bay. The double-windows are divided by white metal mullions, and all the windows below the top floor have simple stone sills and splayed, grey stone lintels with keystones (except for the smaller windows, which lack keystones). A black metal fire escape runs down the eastern two bays. The top floor has a grey stone band at top and bottom, and the facade is crowned by a white metal roof cornice with acanthus-leaf brackets and an egg-and-dart molding.

The west facade on the avenue is fully linted with metal-and-glass storefronts at the ground floor. The upper floors have two single-window bays at the south end, a bay of smaller windows in the middle, and a narrow double-window flanked by a single-window bay on either side at the north end. The 2nd & 3rd bays from the north are covered by another fire escape, and the roof cornice continues on this facade.

The rear facades are brick, unpainted. The ground floor is occupied by Walter's Pet Styles, Hawa Smoothies, Edible Arrangements, Brick Oven Pizza 33, and Wolfnights wraps. The building contains 25 apartment units.