885 Tenth Avenue

 apartment building, 1945_construction

6-story residential building completed in 1945. Designed by Arthur Weiser, it is clad in red brick. The ground floor has a central, grey-painted brick section with the main entrance facing the avenue, with a glass-and-metal door framed by angled, dark grey-brown painted stone sidewalls. Flanking these are a pair of small planter boxes, with a window above the northern one. The entry is covered by a small metal canopy. To the south is a storefront clad in cobbled stone with a projecting entry vestibule and peaked canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. To the north is another storefront, the south half of which continues the red brick of the upper floors and has glass-and-metal double-doors flanked by windows; the north half has a projecting seating area with large glass panes framed in black metal, topped by a sloping metal roof that turns the northeast corner and continues along more than half of the ground floor on 58th Street. A few former windows on the ground floor to the west are filled-in, and the west end has a metal service door below the single remaining window.

The upper floors have stone string courses below the 2nd & 4th floors, and both above and below the windows of the top floor. The east facade on the avenue has 11 bays of single-windows with stone sills; some on the 2nd & 4th floors have brick lintels with limestone keystones. There are brick keys along both edges of the facade up to the 5th floor. A pair of black iron fire escapes runs down the facade.

The north facade has four columns of brick keys, and 13 bays of single-windows. The outer keyed columns are set in from the building edges, and the western end bays of windows sits to the right of the western keyed column. The columns frame three bays to either side, and six middle bays. Another fire escape runs down the 4th & 5th bays from the east, with a wide landing at the 2nd floor extending four more bays to the west. The roof line is capped by a simple stone coping.

The west facade is clad in brown brick, except for a short return of red brick at the front edge. It has 10 bays of single-windows, with the southern two bays set back from the rest of the facade. There are two more fire escapes on this facade. The building contains 38 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by The Greek Kitchen restaurant, and Chipotle Mexican Grill.