370 Lexington Avenue

 office building, skyscraper

331-foot, 26-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1929. Designed by Moore & Landsiedel, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base. The east facade on the avenue is six bays wide at the base, which has an extra bay at the south end. The other bays have triple-windows at the 2nd floor and paired windows at the 3rd floor (slightly narrower at the 2nd-from-southern bay), while the extra bay has four windows at the 2nd floor and two sets of double-windows at the 3rd. The ground floor is painted grey, with a grey granite water table, and metal-and-glass storefronts in each bay except for where the main entrance is located. It has a recessed revolving door and glass transom, framed by brown-painted paneled piers on polished black granite bases. A suspended canopy cover the doors, with additional paneling above. At the entrance, the band course capping the ground floor is decorated with a carved row of alternating rosettes and shields inscribed in circles. The base is capped by a dentiled band course.

The north facade on 41st Street spans nine bays. The 2nd & 3rd floors match those on the east facade. The ground floor has a central entrance, similar to the main entrance on the avenue, but shorter, with conventional glass doors instead of a revolving door, and without the canopy. To the left are three storefronts with metal vents on top, the western one wider, and each growing shorter as the slope of the site proceeds uphill to the west. To the right of the entrance are three more storefronts, the one next to the entrance being wider, also with a grey granite water table. The westernmost bay has a metal service entrance.

The upper floors have paired windows like on the 3rd floor, with slightly-projecting uninterrupted piers. On the east facade, the northern two bays and the south bay set back above the 13th floor, with the other two bays extending up one floor higher, creating the effect of a projecting central area. This pattern continues at additional setbacks at the next floor, and then every two floors, up to the roof line. Each setback is marked by a blind arcade and band of dentils. The north facade has similar cascading setbacks at matching floors, beginning at the three end bays on each side. The setbacks create a pyramid effect at the corner of the tower.

The south facade, above the extra bay of the base, has larger 3-over-2 windows, with the bays dropping off as they reach each setback. The west elevation, above the abuts the neighboring building up to the 10th floor. Above, there are several floors of plain parged concrete where the former building adjoined the wall. The top floors are clad in buff-colored brick with a few windows. The ground floor is occupied by Katagiri Japanese Grocery, Le Pain Quotidien restaurant, Dunkin' Donuts, and Zucker's Bagels & Smoked Fish.