201 East 35th Street

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10-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Gronenberg and Leuchtag, it is clad in beige brick with a grey granite water table. The main entrance is centered on the south facade, in two stone-clad bays with arched openings. The western one has a 3-step-up entrance with stainless-steel-and-glass double-doors below a rounded, grey canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk, and the eastern one has a double-window and fanlight covered by intricate iron grillework. The arches are lined by two sets of moldings, the inner one spiraled, and the architraves feature carved panels and keystones. To the left of the entrance the ground floor has three small windows set up high, the western two partially filled with vents, and the narrower eastern one with a metal grille, and at the west end is a plate-glass storefront window. To the right of the central arches the ground floor has a single-window, two bays of paired windows, and a narrower double-window, all with thin bracketed sills, stone surrounds, and thin, dentiled cornices on top. Below these, the basement level rises as the site slopes down, revealing four low basement windows with iron grilles, and a gated basement entrance at the far east end. The ground floor is topped by a terra-cotta band course with a rope molding and geometric pattern.

The upper floors have brick quoins at the edges. There are two paired window bays at the center, followed outward by a single-window bay, another set of paired windows, another single-window, another paired window bay, and narrow double-window end bays. At the 2nd floor the two center bays have stone enframements with various moldings, scalloped elements, and a crowning dentil course. There are projecting stone balconies at the center bays on the 9th floor, and at the outer paired-window bays on the 8th floor, that have console brackets and egg-and-dart moldings. Rising from the balconies are spiral colonettes framing the windows, topped by arches enclosing carved tympanum. The two outer bays set back above the 9th floor, and the roof lines are marked by projecting, scalloped cornices with dentils.

The west facade on the avenue has storefronts lining the ground floor, although the decorative stone band topping the ground floor on the south facade is visible here as well. The upper floors have two bays of paired windows in the center (with balconies at the 9th floor), followed by a single-window bay on either side, and narrow double-window end bays, which have brick quoins framing them on both sides. The end bays here set back above the 9th floor, and on the 10th floor the window arrangement changes to three double-windows with a small single-window between the southern two bays.

The building contains 85 apartment units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Dream Nail Spa, Galleria on Third Custom Framing, and Hair Allure Studio.