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3-story mercantile building completed in 1936. Designed by Robert A. Fash, the structure originally consisted of two 19th-century tenements, four and five stories tall, whose upper floors were demolished and new floors built in their place, along with new entrances, storefronts and windows. The facades are faced in black-painted stone above the various ground-floor storefronts. A subway entrance is also incorporated into the middle of the 40th Street side, with a recessed staircase and white tile walls.

The upper floors span ten bays of large show-windows on the north elevation, with two narrower bays of smaller windows at the west end. The piers dividing the bays extend up past the roof line, and some project out from the facade. The narrow east facade on the avenue has three bays. The ground floor is occupied by Smoker's World, 99-cent Delicious Pizza, 200 Tobacco Smoke City, and Empanada Mama.