390 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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5-story Italianate residential building originally completed in 1860 as a store-and-loft building. A fire in 1899 caused extensive damage to the building; the architectural firm of Jardine, Kent & Jardine was commissioned to reconstruct the building in 1900. Faced in white-painted stone above the ground floor, the facade is three bays wide. The 2nd-4th floors have three large square-headed windows each. Paneled pilasters frame the windows and incised spandrels divide the stories. The 5th floor has arched window openings with keystones and is topped by a corbel table and a sheet-metal cornice with end brackets that is missing most of its modillions. The ground floor has light grey-painted, fluted cast-iron columns and pilasters and a modillioned cornice.

The Cortlandt Alley elevation is faced in stuccoed brick. Some window openings have been sealed; others retain their fireproof shutters. An iron fire escape is present. From the late nineteenth century to the 1960s the building was owned by the Bruen-Ide family, descendants of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Various tenants included dry goods businesses, an office furniture salesroom, manufacturers of mattress covers, and a manufacturer and wholesaler of curtains. It was last occupied by textile companies before being converted to residential use in the late-1990s. The ground floor is occupied by Walker & Whyte shoe store.