464 Greenwich Street

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5-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1892. Designed by Charles S. Clark as a store-and-loft building for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale coffee and tea merchant. Its Renaissance-revival design was replicated for two of the other buildings—462 Greenwich Street (1895, S.W. McLeod) and 460 Greenwich Street (Franklin Baylies, 1897, owned by Jacob Gumperz, a partner in the firm)—and elaborated upon in the design of 466 Greenwich Street (Franklin Baylies, 1899-1900). The red brick facade has rock-faced brownstone keystones and imposts at the flat-arched window heads and bands of ornamental brick trim below the imposts. A brick and terra-cotta roof cornice terminates the facade.

The ground floor has black cast-iron piers framing bay openings in which historic paired wood doors and transoms remain, as well as a paneled exterior elevator door. The signage of "T. A. Coffee Co.,Inc." remains on the signband below the sheet-metal cornice of the base. In the 1930s the office of the New York Mills coffee business, which had been located at 458 Greenwich Street for many years, was in No. 464. Prior to 1950 the Turkish & Arabian Coffee Company, whose signage remains, moved into the building.