Hustler Club New York

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2-story men's club completed in 1946 as a restaurant. Originally designed by Morris Whinston, the exterior was re-designed in an faux Neo-Classical theme for Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in 2004. In 2013, a Banksy piece was painted on the metal security gate that covers the club's entrance, entitled Waiting in Vain, and depicting a man holding a bouquet of wilted flowers.

The facade is faced in dark-beige stucco, with rounded northwest and southwest corners. Along the avenue, the base is clad in black tiles, interrupted by 17 fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals halfway up the facade. The pilasters continue as simplified versions above the capitals, to a horizontal band near the roof line; at a section just north of the middle and another near the south end, this band has large dentils. The middle one features a shallow-arched, white plaster relief in a Greek or Roman style, depicting three female figures, bordered by foliate ornament. Below it there is an "H" in a circle, and a set of black metal service doors at the ground level. Above it is dip in the roof line, above which rises a temple-style facade with six Doric columns carrying a large pediment. To the south is another relief panel above another "H", with a metal service door to the right. At the south end, below the dentils, are three decorative poster boards.

A larger, lower, projecting poster board spans the rounded corner, and the south facade has the main entrance, behind a roll-down metal gate, with a smaller entrance at the east end. Both have red canvas awnings, and above the main entrance is a rounded pediment with a relief of two reclining figures. This is surmounted by more dentils and scroll ornament.

Another poster board spans the northwest corner, and the north facade on 52nd Street has black metal service doors. The location on the outskirts of the city results from “erogenous zoning” which prohibits adult entertainment uses from residential areas, some manufacturing and commercial districts.