14 Jay Street

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8-story Neo-Grec cooperative-apartment building completed in 1882, renovated in 2006. Designed by Berger & Baylies as a store-and-loft building, it has a black cast-iron ground floor below a metal awning. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with three bays of windows per floor with segmental heads trimmed in stone. Coursed and patterned brick pilasters further mark the design. The center bays of stories two through eight contain historic paired wood and glass doors leading on to a recent fire escape that spans the facade. The building is capped by a decorative brick parapet.

In the late nineteenth century, this building was used as a tobacco processing factory; by the mid-twentieth century it was occupied as a butter and eggs warehouse with a wholesale market on the first floor. The 2006 renovation converted the building to apartments.