302 Fifth Avenue

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162-foot, 13-story office building completed in 1916. Designed by George & Edward Blum, it is L-shaped, with a wing extending toward the middle of the block on the west end. The facade is clad in buff-colored brick above a 2-story base. The ground floor has cast-iron piers and has been altered with a variety of infill over the years. It includes red brick, black metal and white stone between storefronts and and entry doors. The 2nd floor is faced in limestone; there are five bays of tripartite windows on the south facade, with an additional bay of one regular-sized and two narrow windows at the west end. The narrow east facade on 5th Avenue has a wide bay at the 2nd floor with two large center panes and slightly smaller side panes. On both facades the base is capped by a modillioned and dentiled band course above an ornate foliate frieze.

The brick upper floors have three bays on the east elevation, and 12 bays along the south elevation, each with a single-window - on the 3rd floor, they are enframed in a round-arched stone surround with decorative carvings; the exception is the two narrow windows at the western end bay. The windows above the 3rd floor have stone sills (further projecting at the 4th floor). A dentiled cornice runs above the 10th floor, and a round-arched enframement and small decorative balcony highlight the center bay at the 12th floor on the east facade, and alternating bays on the south facade. Above the bracketed and dentiled bright green copper cornice, the penthouse floor is faced in simple stucco.

The ground floor is occupied by a Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins.