Gramercy Row (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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7-story modernist residential building completed in 1977. Designed by William B. Gleckman, it is clad in red ironspot brick. At the ground floor the bays are set back between brick piers with stair-step beveled ends. They have very tall windows in black metal framing, with four bays to the east and two bays to the west of the entrance, which has a glass wall in which are set glass double-doors. The 2nd floor has seven bays of shorter windows with metal railings, unevenly spaced across the facade, repeated on the 5th floor.

The 3rd-4th floors and 6th-7th floors have similar windows, but stacked into 2-story units, spaced differently along the facade. At the 4th & 6th floors there are projecting iron balconies with angled ends and iron railings, one at each end and a wider one in the middle. The end balconies are split into halves by a concrete dividing wall in the center, and there are two such dividing walls in the middle balcony, each of which extends up two stories to iron balcony roofs (also with angled ends) at the tops of the 5th and 7th floors. The facade also has numerous projecting through-wall air-conditioning units. A black metal band caps the roof line. The building contains 84 apartment units.