The Tuxedo

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6-story Renaissance/Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1890. Designed by Arthur Donovan Pickering, it is clad in red-painted brick with white stone trim above a ground floor that is clad in brownstone on the south facade and in non-painted red brick with two metal-and-glass storefronts along the avenue.

The three ground-floor brick piers on the avenue have horizontal bands of red-painted stone, and the two storefronts are topped by wide metal panels with a wave-and-flower motif. The south storefront also has a bay at the west end of the south elevation, with a matching metal band across the top. The rest of the ground floor on this facade is rough-faced and rusticated, with planters behind a low, decorative wrought-iron fence. At the center of the brownstone section is the main residential entrance, up a small stoop, with paneled wooden double-doors and a transom. Above the thin sidewalls of the stoop, the doors are flanked by fluted pilasters with Ionic capitals and carved brackets supporting an ornately-carved entablature and cornice with an egg-and-dart molding that extends out to either side. Directly to the left of the entrance is a narrow window with a separated upper section that is topped by a small arched panel of carved ornament. Further left there is a square carved panel set up high that bears an armor breastplate inscribed with "TUXEDO" in front of crosses battle axes, topped by a knight's helmet; on either side is a square vent topped by a low arch of ornament similar to the one above the narrow window. To the right of the entrance are three bays, the innermost with a secondary glass door atop a very small brick stoop, and the other two with windows, all topped by black canvas awnings.

The 2nd floor is banded with narrow horizontal grooves in the brick, and has white-painted stone bands at top and bottom. There is a bay of paired windows above the entrance, with two bays of single-windows to the right, and an eastern end bay of single-windows, and three bays of single-windows to the left, with another end bay of single-windows at the west. Between the 2nd & 3rd floors each bay has a white spandrel panel with elaborate carved ornament. Cross the top of the 3rd floor is a band course with a row of varied rosettes and a cornice; it is interrupted by the window bays. Between the 4th & 5th floors is a broad band, lined by white stone at the top and bottom, that has a dogstooth brickwork pattern. Two slightly-projecting chimney shafts appear at the 4th floor, extending up to the roof cornice. The 5th-floor windows have splayed lintels with keystones, and there are dogstooth spandrels between the 5th & 6th floors; the 6th-floor windows are round-arched. The facade is crowned by a dark-red metal roof cornice with brackets and panels.

The west facade on the avenue has the same design scheme, and has two bays of double-windows in the center (each window separated by a white pilaster), and two outer bays of single-windows on either side. The roof cornice continues on this elevation, and the northern two bays are covered by a red metal fire escape.

The building contains 16 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Artiste Jewelers, and The Corcoran Group realtors.