94 Greenwich Street (New York City, New York)

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4-story Federal-style residential building completed in 1800 as a 3.5-story house. The 4th floor was added in 1858. The ground floor storefront has been altered, with beige-painted stone piers, metal and glass infill and blue awnings. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with three bays of windows on the elevation facing Greenwich. Each window has a stone sill and brick lintel. Iron tie-bar rods are visible between the floors. A black metal fire escape is shared with No. 94 1/2 next door, covering the north bay. At the roof line is a simple black metal cornice.

The Rector Street elevation shows the angle of the pitched portion of the roof (in the center). Much of the red brick is replacement brick. There are four regular sized windows on the 2nd floor, three on the 3rd, and two on the 4th, with a smaller bathroom window on both the 2nd & 3rd floors. All the windows have marble sills and splayed stone lintels with keystones. A 2-story rear extension (originally built with just one floor in 1853, with the 2nd floor added in 1873) is also clad in red brick on the 2nd floor, above a continuation of the storefront. The 2nd-story windows on the extension have flat stone sills and lintels. The west-facing windows on the main structure's 3rd & 4th floors are visible above the extension; they are larger multi-pane windows with shallow segmental-arched brick headers.

By 1810, No. 94 had become a boardinghouse for merchants and professional men (many of them prominent), housed a porterhouse by 1837, and was listed as a hotel in 1841. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the building housed a variety of commercial tenants on the ground level while the upper floors were in residential use. The storefront at the main structure is currently occupied by Cafe Bravo, and the one in the extension by Pomodoro Pizza, and Planet Gyro.
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Coordinates:   40°42'29"N   74°0'49"W
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