Lexington Plaza Apartments (New York City, New York)

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167-foot, 17-story modernist residential building completed in 1984. Designed by Wechsler, Grasso, Menziuso, it is clad in beige brick with exposed floor plates of lighter-colored concrete giving it a banded appearance. The Lexington frontage is set back a little with a double-height ground floor organized into three bays. The outer two have commercial storefronts of metal and glass, while the main entrance is in the middle one, remodeled in 2013. A metal canopy hood slants outward, enclosing a glass wall with a revolving door on the right and a traditional glass door on the left.

The 2nd-4th floors have two bays that both have two sets of double-windows joined together, and a regular bay of double-windows in between them, at the south half of the facade. The north half has two bays with glass French doors and a narrow single-window, both opening onto a wide, shallow balcony (with metal railing at the 2nd floor, and concrete fronts at the other two floors), and then another bay of paired double-windows, and a north end bay of double-windows. Beginning at the 5th floor, the wide balconies are replaced by two bays of paired windows, and the three bays with paired double-windows now have projecting concrete balconies with metal railings (narrower, but deeper than those on the 2nd-4th floors). All of the bays without balconies have black metal air-conditioning vents.

The south facade has a west bay that extends farther south than the rest, with more balconies. The rest of the south elevation has two single-windows near this bay, beginning at the 6th floor, and a bay of wider single-windows at the east end only at the top five floors. The east-facing facet of the south-projecting wing at the west end has a bay of wider single-windows.

The building contains 96 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by Poke Mahi, and Fresca Bowl restaurants.