131 East 23rd Street

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210-foot, 12-story Neo-Renaissance residential building completed in 1912. Designed by Buchman & Fox, it has a tripartite arrangement, with a 2-story limestone base (with grey granite water table), a shaft of buff-colored brick, and a 3-story limestone crown.

The double-height ground floor on 23rd Street is divided into three bays by four large, engaged columns with Doric capitals. The main entrance is in the west bay, with a steel-framed glass door, sidelights and tall transom, and a glass-and-metal canopy that swoops upward to the right. The middle bay has plate-glass windows divided into upper and lower sections by a horizontal band of silver metal, and the east bay has an entrance to the ground-floor commercial space, with metal-framed glass double-doors, sidelights, and a tall transom. A broad stone band across the ground floor has a row of tiny dentils arranged into groups of six, and a cornice with flat modillions on the underside, each of which has a checkered pattern on its underside. The 2nd floor has six narrow double-windows, grouped into three pairs, with paneled stone piers, and a band at the top with a Greek fret motif, a roundel above each pier, and a shell and ribbons at the end piers.

The brick upper floors have the same window arrangement, with the windows slightly recessed into the facade, with stone sills and splayed brick lintels. The 10th floor has stone piers with textured panels, and the windows are also recessed into the facade. There is a band course above the 10th floor, with three scrolled brackets supporting curved, projecting shallow balconies with bronze railings at the 11th floor. Above the balconies rise three 2-story triple-window openings with bronze mullions and spandrels, with arched tops at the 12th floor, where there are keystones and foliate ornament. The stone piers each have a cartouche at the top, and the facade is topped by a simple stone parapet where a roof cornice likely once existed.

The east facade on the avenue has five bays at the ground floor, with another commercial entrance in the south bay, and metal vents and louvers in the north bay. The middle three have plate-glass windows divided by silver metal panels into upper and lower sections. The rest of the facade follows the same design as the south facade, only wider with five sets of paired windows, and five arches at the top.

The north elevation is clad in red brick. The east half has no windows, and the west half is somewhat recessed, with three bays of narrow double-windows. The west elevation is clad in brown brick and has one bay of single-windows near the middle, although multiple former window bays are visible that have been bricked-in with red brick.

The building contains 66 apartment units. The ground floor is occupied by a TD Bank branch.