417 Third Avenue (New York City, New York)

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6-story Romanesque-revival residential building originally completed in 1894 with five floors. It is clad in beige brick with brown terra-cotta trim above a commercial ground floor clad in grey-green tiles. The residential entrance is at the south end, with a glass door. To the north is a glass storefront door with a narrow sidelight, and then a narrow and wide plate-glass window.

The upper floors have four bays of single-windows. There is thin terra-cotta banding across each floor, with the top band on the 2nd floor wider and featuring an elegant pattern. There is a brick dentil course between the 2nd & 3rd floors, and the windows on the 2nd & 3rd floors have splayed brown lintels and sill courses. Beginning at the base of the 3rd floor are narrow, slightly-projecting, 2-story brick pilasters at the ends of the facade (with the banding continuing across them), and three more pilasters at the middle piers beginning at the 4th floor, culminating in the bases of round-arches at the tops of the 4th-floor windows. Each arch has terra-cotta molding at the outer edge, and a keystone. There are decorative terra-cotta panels with garlands in the middle two bays below the 4th floor, and what were likely similar panels at the outer bays have been bricked over. The top floor's windows have flat lintels and a continuous sill course, with slightly-projecting, narrow pilasters at each pier. Just below the roof parapet is some corbelled brickwork and brick panels with geometric designs. The parapet is capped by a stone coping, and the newer 6th floor is slightly set back behind it.

A beige metal fire escape runs down the middle of the facade. The ground floor is occupied by Pita and Beyond restaurant.