Remington Rand Building

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266-foot, 20-story Beaux-arts office building completed in 1911. Designed by William C. Frohne, it is clad in buff-colored brick and black iron above a 3-story limestone base with large, banded piers on grey granite plinths. The west facade on the avenue has five bays, with the end bays narrower. The main entrance is in the south bay, with glass double-doors, sidelights, and a transom. The doorway, as well as the triple-window above at the 2nd floor (separated by a stone panel) are framed by a stone molding with an intricate interlocking pattern, topped by a shield ringed by a wreath, with scrolled brackets at the top supporting a cornice. The other bays have glass storefronts, each with glass double-doors except for the 2nd bay from the north. The middle bays have tripartite windows at the 2nd & 3rd floors, with thin, black iron mullions, and paneled black iron spandrels between floors within each bay. The north end bay has a smaller triple-window at the 2nd floor, with a keystone bearing a bearded face wearing a lion skin hood. Both end bays have single-windows at the 3rd floor. The base is topped by a broad, modillioned stone cornice with a frieze of alternating roundels and triglyphs. The 4th floor is transitional, with paneled stone piers between three bays of paired windows and single-window end bays. It is capped by a dentiled band course.

The upper floors have triple-windows in the three middle bays, with black iron mullions, and paneled, black iron spandrels between the floors of each bay. The brick at the end bays is banded, and they have punched single-windows recessed into the facade. The middle bays each have a helmeted female head as a keystone at the top of the 15th floor, which is topped by a stone band course. The 16th floor is limestone, with paneled piers around eight single-windows. The 17th floor is set off by a stone cornice with large dentils. 3-story fluted columns separate the six middle single-windows at the 17th-19th floors, with black iron spandrels between floors, while the end bays have paneled stone spandrels between floors. At the 19th floor, the piers framing the end bays have stone shields with wreaths. A simpler stone band course sets off the top floor, which eight evenly-spaced single-windows recessed between stone moldings with scrolled keystones. Each pier is decorated with a wreath below a panel and then a carved head (lions' heads at the end bays). The facade is crowned by a large, brown metal roof cornice with modillions, dentils, and small lion's heads.

The north facade on 24th Street has the same arrangement, but with five middle bays. There is another entrance in the eastern of the middle bays, with glass double-doors and a revolving door below a metal canopy. The east end bay has a freight entrance with metal doors. The other difference is the end bays having two narrow single-windows on the 3rd floor.

The east elevation is plain, reddish-brown brick with one bay of windows at the south end. The south elevation is also brick, with the west half having no openings, but is covered by enormous advertisement. The east half is set farther back and has five bays of single-windows. The ground floor is occupied by Kernel restaurant, Just Salad, and an Equinox gym.