Leslie House

 apartment building, 1962_construction, housing cooperative

144-foot, 13-story modernist cooperative-apartment building completed in 1962. Designed by Leo Stillman, it is predominately clad in reddish-brown brick. The ground floor is fronted by large planters enclosed by low brick walls, with a wide opening at the center for a set of three steps leading up to a slightly-recessed main entrance framed in black polished granite. There are glass double-doors offset to the left in a glass wall, and covered by a stainless-steel canopy that is angled slightly up.

The upper floors have five bays of window bands with five panes in dark-grey metal framing above white stone sills. The three middle bays are separated at the piers by dark-grey brick. Closer to the ends are a double-window bay, and a recessed end bay of triple-windows on both sides. Each window bay has metal air-conditioning vents below it.

At the ground floor the recessed east end bay has a small entrance to an underground parking garage. To the east of the main entrance is a show-window, a storefront entrance with glass double-doors between window panes (accessed through a break in the low brick wall), another show-window, and a wider show-window in the end bay, with another break in the wall containing a set of stairs leading down to a basement entrance. The show-windows and the storefront entrance all have dark-green box awnings.

All of the bays except for the three middle ones set back above the 10th and 11th floors, and all of the bays set back above the12th floor. The building contains 144 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Zohreh Uomo tailor.