Bayard Building

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11-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1903. Designed by Arthur H. Bowditch, it has a 2-story limestone and rusticated brick base. The piers have light rustication above their granite bases. On the Broadway facade, the spandrels between the 2nd lower floors in the two northern bay are black cast-iron with cast cartouches. The southern bay contains an entrance framed in decorative stone, with a rounded pediment broken by a cartouche featuring the carved characters "BAYARD BLDG. 1903". Smaller stone cartouches marks the tops of each of the piers on the 2nd floor. The longer Spring Street elevation spans 13 bays, with a matching design to the two northern bays on Broadway. The Crosby Street elevation is slightly wider than Broadway, with four bays.

The upper floors have the same basic design on all three facades. They are clad in buff-colored brick, with rustications on the 3rd floor, and the outer sections of the higher floors. The paired windows have splayed brick lintels, and a dentiled band course runs across the top of the 3rd floor. Another band course runs across the top of the 8th floor, where the outer sections have segmental-arched windows with keystones, and the piers have cartouches. The 10th floor is topped by a projecting cornice with dentils and large, paired, scrolled stone brackets at the outer sections. Above this cornice the top floor is capped by a brick parapet. The ground floor and second story are occupied by Aritzia boutique, and Balthazar Cafe. The building's exterior was renovated in 2014.