97 Sullivan Street | apartment building

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5-story residential building completed in 1908. Designed by George Butz as a tenement, it is clad in beige brick above a cast-iron storefront, painted dark-grey. There are three main bays of windows, with a small, narrow openings at each end, but these have been bricked-in. There is a band course of rough stone and dentiled brick at the top of the 2nd floor, and a thinner rough stone band course connecting the windows sills at each floor, with a dentiled brick band course connecting the top of each floor's windows. The 3rd-5th floors have segmental-arched brick headers above the windows, with rough stone end caps and keystones. Air conditioning vents have been cut below the right window on each floor, and a metal fire escape runs down the left and center bays. The building is crowned on the street frontage by a large, projecting metal roof cornice. The exposed northern wall is faced in plain concrete, with no openings. Blue Ribbon, an eclectic restaurant, occupies the ground floor.