NEP Group Studio 54

 television studio, commercial building

A pair of joined 4-story buildings both completed sometime around 1900. They most notably recently served as the filming location for a string of popular comedy/news satire shows, beginning with Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes conservative personality-driven political pundit programs, particularly Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits. The studio became the Nightly Show studio after The Colbert Report ended in 2014, and then a program called The President Show.

The facade of the west building is clad in red-painted and parged brick on the lower levels, and red-painted stucco on the upper floors. Concrete piers divide it into three bays, with a horizontal beam separating the upper half from the bottom. There is a black metal door at the right side of the middle bay on the ground floor, covered by a rounded, black canvas canopy, and the west bay has a a rounded canopy extending along its length. The top two floors each have two small windows in both of the western bays, and one such window in the east bay.

The smaller east building is a former townhouse, clad in red-painted brick. It has a sideways stoop on the right, with iron railings, leading up to a parlor-floor entrance with a modern glass-and-metal door and sidelights below a rounded, black canvas canopy. Two the left are two round-arched single-windows with metal grilles, and all three of these openings have white-painted brick eyebrow lintels above them. Below them is a band of rough-faced, beige-painted stone (broken by the doorway). The former basement level is faced in red-painted, rough-faced stone and has a metal door on the left, down a set of steps enclosed by a metal cage.

The upper floors are set off by a corbelled, beige stone band, and have three bays of single-windows (round-arched at the top floor). There are paneled brick spandrels between these floors, and the top-floor windows have eyebrow lintels like those on the parlor floor. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with four console brackets, dentils, and panels.