85 10th Avenue

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173-foot, 11-story office building completed in 1914 as an manufacturing annex to the National Biscuit Company factory across 10th Avenue, filling all of the trapezoidal lot. Designed by Albert G. Zimmerman, it is connected to that building by a pair of angled skybridges at the 2nd & 4th floors. All four facades are clad in red brick, with a 2-story base having banded brick piers.

The current main entrance is on Tenth Avenue, just south of the skybridges, with two sets of metal-framed glass double-doors. There are retail spaces to either side. There are former main entrances to the building on the south, north, and west sides, each with arches featuring scrolled keystones and topped by stone panels reading "NBC", for the National Biscuit Company, or Nabisco. The west end of the south facade on 15th Street has two loading docks.

The east facade spans 10 bays, the south facade has 9, the west facade has 10, and the north facade has 12 bays. Most of the bays have triple-windows at the upper floors. Parts of the ground floor are occupied by the Crane Club restaurant, and Mel's Pizzeria.

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