10 Astor Place (New York City, New York)

 office building, 1876_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

7-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1876. Designed by Griffith Thomas as a factory and printing office, it is 18 bays wide on Astor Place, and ten bays wide on Lafayette. The 1-story base has cast-iron columns and is topped by a dentiled cornice. An entrance portico at the western end of the Astor Place elevation with narrow columns is shared by 4-8 Astor Place.

The upper floors feature red brick piers with decorative caps, elaborate wrought-iron tie plates, segmental and round-arch (on the center section of the 2nd & 3rd floors) lintels, round columns, and molded architraves. The white metal roof cornice features corbels, a blind arcade, and curved brackets. The Lafayette Street side has a similar design, with the southernmost bay bricked-in.

In 1965, the manufacturing spaces above the ground floor were converted to offices. The building houses the Harvey Milk High School, as well as offices of NYU. The ground floor is occupied by a Walgreens, and Arche Shoes.