Park South Tower

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230-foot, 20-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1927 as an office building named the Green Central Building. Designed by Shampan & Shampan, it is clad in light-brown brick above a 3-story stone base. The ground floor has warm-colored limestone along the top and bottom, framing metal-and-glass storefronts, and also framing the main entrance at the north end of the west facade. The entry surround is beveled inward and lined with a band of foliate ornament. The entrance has a steel-framed glass revolving door and a traditional door below a large fanlight, covered by a rounded, red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. The 2nd & 3rd floors have 2-story marble piers and limestone spandrels between the floors within each bay. The west facade is organized into a single-window center bay, flanked by a paired window bay on either side, and a north end bay with double-windows and a south end bay with tripartite windows. An elaborate stone band course caps the base, decorated with intricate foliate ornament (also on the capitals of the piers). The south facade has a similar arrangement, but the end bays are wider, both with tripartite windows.

The upper floors have the same arrangement in the middle bays, but the ends have separate trios of windows. At the bottom of the 4th floor the piers have stone bases in a checkerboard pattern. The brick spandrels between floors have simple rectangles and the windows have dentiled stone sills. The facades are dotted by protruding air-conditioning units.

The end bays set back above the 17th floor, and the center bays narrow to three windows, round-arched at the 19th floor, with another setback below the top floor. There are narrow, angled single-window bays connecting the middle and end bays at the top floors.

The north and east facades are clad in darker brown brick, with no ornamentation. The north facade has two bays of paired windows at the west edge, and a bay of small windows near the east end. The east facade has a bay of paired windows at the south end, a light well shaft to the north, and a bay of single-windows near the north end, where a chimney rises from the northeast corner of the roof.

The building was converted to a co-op in 1980, with 74 apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Fresh and Co.