668 Tenth Avenue

 apartment building, 1883_construction

5-story residential building completed in 1883 to a design matching the buildings to the south. It is clad in white-painted brick. On the west facade the ground floor has a wood, iron, and glass storefront with a central entrance. The glass door is flanked by two sidelights and all three have transoms. To the south is a set of four narrow windows in wood frames, and to the north is a 4-panel French door with wood frames. The storefront wraps around onto the north facade for one window, but then continues with two bays of matching 4-panel French doors, a regular wood-and-glass doors, and a window. At the east end is the entrance to the upper floors, with a metal-and-glass door up a couple of stone steps, and framed by red-painted stone with a triangular pediment. A slanted black canvas canopy cover the length of the storefront on both facades.

On the west facade the upper floors have four bays of single-windows with grey-painted stone sills and eared lintels. The north facade has two bays of matching windows near the middle, and the 2nd floor also has a small bathroom window to the right of the west-middle window, another single-window at the west end (without a lintel), two more windows without lintels east of the east-middle windows, and a small window at the east end, above the doorway. Both the west and north facades are crowned by a grey metal roof cornice with brackets, dentils, and panels.

There is a small 2-story extension at the east end of the building on 47th Street, faced in plain grey concrete on the 2nd floor. The ground floor has a storefront with a glass door and sidelight and a wide plate-glass window. There is a metal service door at the west end, adjoining the main building. The 2nd floor has a square 2-over-2 window in the center, with a single-window on either side.

The upper floors of the rear, east-facing facade also have four bays of single-windows, and a metal fire escape. In place of the roof cornice, there is a dentiled band course at the roof line. The ground floor is occupied by Anejo restaurant, with the 2-story east extension occupied by Meske Ethiopian restaurant.