Greenwich Place (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, 1908_construction

13-story Italian-Renaisssance residential building completed in 1908. Designed by F.S. Parker as a 12-story office building, it was converted to rental apartments with an adititonal setback penthouse floor in 1999 by architects Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, and then to condominiums in 2006, with 102 units. It has 3-story base of rusticated buff-colored brick set atop a stone water table. The corners are rounded, and a stone band course with a carved pattern wraps around the three main facades.

There are residential entrances on the shorter north and south elevations. The north one is up a short set of steps, with a limestone surround decorated with carved medallions and topped by an escutcheon and a rounded, broken pediment with an egg-shaped finial in the center. The smaller rear entrance on Carlisle Street has a narrower stone surround, and scrolled brackets supporting a broken angled pediment with a window in the center. The three ground-floor bays on this facade have had the original windows replaced with stuccoed infill geometric patterns of glass blocks. The long Greenwich Street elevation's ground floor is lined with storefronts. The 2nd floor has large, square, triple-paned windows, and the 3rd floor has segmental-arched triple-pane windows. There are four bays on Albany Street, seven on Greenwich, and three plus one narrower bay (the rear entrance) on Carlisle. Stone cartouches decorate the apex of each arched opening. Large stone quoins also decorate the bays directly above the main entrance on Albany Street.

The upper floors are clad in plain buff-colored brick, with quoins on the corners. Each bay has paired windows topped by splayed brick lintels and a keystone. The west- and south-facing rear walls (facing the newer W Hotel) are clad in red brick. There are a number of windows, with the only ornamentation being the flat lintels on the south-facing ones. On the three main facades, a dentiled band course caps the 10th floor.

The top two floors have 2-story triple-window bays with green metal spandrels and segmental-arches at the top. The keystones of the arches run into the fascia board of the green metal roof cornice, that has modillions and rounded corners. The ground floor is occupied by Koko Asian Fusion Restaurant, and Blue Planet Pizza Bar.