Kaufman Building (New York City, New York) | office building

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200-foot, 17-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1924. Designed by Charles B. Meyers, it is clad in brown brick above a 3-story limestone base, seven bays wide. The main entrance is at the east end, framed in pink granite, with the metal numbers 224 above the door. The west end has a service door with a shallow triangular pediment. The piers and storefronts in between on the ground floor are of black cast-iron and glass. The 2nd & 3rd floor have five windows in the middle bay, three in each of the flanking bays, and double-windows in the end bays, all divided by dark-brown iron mullions. The spandrels have circles inscribed in squares at each window, flanked by metopes. At the spandrel level, the piers are decorated with bands of three hollow circles. At the end bays the spandrels have protruding circles. A row of tiny rosettes tops the 3rd-floor windows, with larger ones and small dentils above the end bays. The base is capped by a dentiled cornice which ends before the end bays.

At the upper floors, the middle bay has four windows, the next bays have three, the next bays have two, and the outer bays each have three windows separated by brick pilasters in place of the wide iron mullions at the other bays. The spandrels at the middle and next-to-end bays have patterns of notched-corner rectangle shapes. A stone lintel course tops the 10th floor, above which the end bays are set back. The bays flanking the middle bay are set back above the 11th floor at the outer halves, and above the 12th floor at the inner halves; there are only two windows in each of these bays at the 11th floor, and one window at the 12th floor, all topped with stone lintels. The 4-window middle bays extends up to the 13th floor before setting back. Similarly, the rear facade on the south side has a series of terraced setbacks at the upper floors.

The exposed front part of the eastern elevation is clad in reddish-brown brick with a bay of double-windows up to the first setback, and single-windows on the next three floors to the next setback. Both the front and rear facades are dotted with protruding air-conditioning units. The ground floor is occupied by Stick to My Pot potstickers restaurant, and Market Crates eatery.