Kaufman Building (New York City, New York) | office building

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150-foot, 12-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1922. Designed by Charles B. Meyers, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a transitional limestone 2nd floor and a limestone ground floor it shares with the taller, neighboring building at 462 Seventh Avenue. The main entrance is actually in the northern bay of the adjoining building; the ground floor of No. 470 has the same grey granite water table, with thin granite framing around the secondary entrance in the south bay and the storefront at the north, as well as the blue dots with white edges at the top of the ground floor. The upper floors of the east facade are divided into a 3-window middle bay and single-window end bays.

The 2nd floor has Neo-Gothic stone pilasters between the windows, and also the spandrels above the 2nd floor, with pointed tops extending up into the lower 3rd floor. The spandrels between the 2nd & 3rd floors are bordered in stone and each have a black square tile in the center. The spandrels on the higher floors are paneled and have similar black squares in the middle and outer spandrels. The windows have sills and headers of vertical-laid brick. The spandrels between the top two floors lack the paneling, and the top floors is surmounted by finials, and the end bays have ornamented, peaked pediments framed by rounded turret columns.

The building wraps around the lower corner structures to a smaller facade on 36th Street. Its design is similar, but with three bays of double-windows, wider spandrels, and a 2-story storefront of wood, metal and glass, topped by a stone cornice and frieze with rosettes. The side walls above the lower buildings at the corner are clad in dark reddish-brown brick with mostly double-windows, but also some single-windows along the edges.

The ground floor is occupied by The Bread Factory Cafe on 7th Avenue, and Pig 'n' Whistle Irish Pub on 36th.