370 Columbus Avenue

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5-story early-modern residential building completed in 1940. Designed by Joseph M. Berlinger, the structure is a reconstruction and combination of three older tenement buildings from 1887 that were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel. They were gutted down to their framing and given new facades clad in red brick above a beige stone ground floor with metal-and-glass storefronts. At the rear the building has two narrow, long light wells.

At the south end of the ground floor is the entrance to the upper floors, with a black metal-framed glass door, sidelights, and transom flanked by fluted, white-painted pilasters supporting a dentiled pediment broken by an urn. The upper floors have 12 bays of single-windows with continuous stone sill courses and brick lintels. Three black metal fire escapes run down the facade, which is topped by a simple brick parapet and stone coping.

The building contains 54 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Chip City, and Gari Sushi.