124 East 24th Street

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6-story Art-Nouveau residential building completed in 1939. Designed by Horace Ginsbern, it is clad in reddish-brown brick. There are three shallow recessed sections - at the ends and near the middle. The main entrance is directly east of the middle recessed section, and has recessed glass double-doors to the left of a small stone section, behind a short stone step with a white stone wall section to the east. There is also a white stone, angled planter next to the entrance, in front of the middle recessed bay.

The recessed end bays have double-windows, while the middle one has two narrow single-windows. Between the middle and east end bays, the upper floors have three narrow single-windows with a double-window on each side that wraps around the corners to a joined single-window on the side-facing wall of the shallow recessed bays (at the ground floor there are only two narrow windows, as the stone section extends over to abut the second window). Between the middle and west end bays, the upper floors have one narrow single-window, and a double-window on each side that also wraps around the corners. There are also four low basement windows near the ground, and a stairway down to a basement entry at the far east end.

Black metal fire escapes run down all three recessed bays. At the 2nd floor the narrow single-windows have projecting, curved stone sills, and the single-window bays are joined by thin bands of rounded brick at the edges that run from the 2nd-6th floors. The building contains 60 apartment units.