Cooper Gramercy

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231-foot, 25-story modernist residential building completed in 1976. Designed by Carl Puchall Associates, and Jarmul & Brizee, it is clad in dark-brown brick. The tower rises from a 3-story base that houses Junior High School 47, which uses an address of 225 East 23rd Street.

The residential entrance on Second Avenue is atop a short set of steps situated between low brick landscaping walls. It has two sets of glass double-doors below a peaked brown canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. There are two bays of recessed plate-glass windows to the north, and another two to the south. At the middle bays the 2nd floors has four double-windows and the 3rd has four sets of paired windows; there are no windows at either end. Both ends set back to fenced-in outdoor terrace spaces while the main north and south piers extend up through the base and frame the north and south ends of the tower above. Three smaller brick piers at the east facade support the floors above the partially-recessed 4th floor.

The upper floors of the tower's east elevation have four bays of double-windows and end bays with single-windows, with the end piers projecting outward. A band across the top also projects out, creating a frame around the windows bays within. The tower is a square, and the piers project at the ends of each facade, creating notched corners. The south facade has a different window pattern, with a double-window center bay, and three single-window bays to either side, with the end bays spaced farther apart.

The 3-story base along 23rd Street is divided into two sections. The east one supports the tower above, and has 10 bays, with double-windows on the 2nd floor, and paired windows on the 3rd floor, with fencing at the terrace setback. The ground floor has some wider bays with iron grilles fronting the open space behind. Dividing the two section is a bay with angled sides; it has no windows on the front, but there are two metal Board of Education medallions near the base. The rest of the base extending to the west has more recessed, gated bays at the ground floor, with two sets of doors. The 2nd & 3rd floors have six bays with double-windows and paired windows, and more fencing across the top.

The west elevation of the tower has three double-windows bays in the middle, and two single-windows on each side, the end bay spaced farther apart. The north elevation of the tower has four single-windows in the middle, and another at each end. The building contains 168 apartment units.