1 Worth Street

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6-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1896. Designed by McKim, Mead & White, as a warehouse for dry goods. The facade consists of a 2-story base -- which retains its original cast- iron and brick piers, wood transom, and interior loading platform (behind roll-down gates) -- and a beige brick grid-like upper portion which has single bays of recessed window openings and spandrels, grouped within a 4-story arcade culminating in round-arches at the 5th floor, and a stringcourse surmounted by the 6th-floor window openings. A simple black metal roof cornice replaces the original one.

The exposed west elevation is a brick wall that has been partly stuccoed and pierced by window openings at the narrower rear portion. In 1905 the building was united to 10-12 Leonard Street via the opening of rear passages. 1 Worth Street has been used to store groceries and Jaburg Brothers' bakers' supplies; it was recently occupied by the United States Egg Corporation on the 1st floor and the upper floors have been converted to residential use.