353 Greenwich Street

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5-story Renaissance-revival residential building completed in 1891 as a tenement building with commercial base. Designed by Franklin Baylies, it is clad in brown brick and stone above a more recent ground-floor storefront. The composition of the upper floors is given horizontal emphasis by brick and stone stringcourses, in a variety of designs, at each sill and lintel line. Contrasting verticality is expressed through slightly projecting brick piers which extend from the 2nd floor to the broad, bracketed roof cornice. The piers are ornamented by incised vertical lines and inset cast-iron panels decorated with grotesques. Triangular pediments cap the three center windows on the 4th floor of the Harrison Street facade, while brick archivolts, some with grotesques, crown the windows of the 5th floor.

In 1899, the lot was sold to Edward and Frederich Post who owned a trucking business elsewhere on Harrison Street. Commercial tenants in the twentieth century included J. Neugeboren & Sons, egg wholesalers. Today the upper floors are again residential, and the ground floor is occupied by Dahlia's Mexican restaurant, along with the ground floor of the neighboring building to the east.