270 Lafayette Street

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180-foot, 15-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1927. Designed by Sugarman & Berger as a store and factory building, its upper-story setbacks and its spare terra-cotta ornament are characteristics of the classicized form of the Art Deco style. It has a 2-story limestone base with cast-iron spandrel panels and mullions, divided into four wide bays on Prince Street, and seven bays on both Crosby and Lafayette (with three narrower center bays). Wall sconces with globe lamps adorn each pier on Prince and Lafayette. The main entrance on Lafayette is in the middle bay, with a segmental-arch. Storefronts line the other bays.

The upper floors are clad in brown brick, rising nine floors on the north end, and stepping up to the full height at the south. There are three windows for each of the bays as divided in the base. One of the two center bays on Crosby Street has openings with recessed balconies instead of windows. Each of the facades is capped by a brick parapet with stone coping, and air conditioning units pepper the surface of the walls.

G-Star Raw apparel store occupies a large ground-level retail space. Other tenants include La Colombe, Supreme, Libeskind Berlin, Dusica Dusica boutique, Jill Platner gallery, and MyKita eyeglasses. Another current tenant is Ovie Entertainment, an American independent film motion picture production and distribution company based in New York City's Soho.