392 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1860. The building was originally used as a store and for warehouse purposes. The Broadway facade of the building is faced in cream-colored marble above the ground floor; the stone was repaired in 1890 following a fire. The upper stories consist of two tiers of double-height "sperm candle" arcades with round-arches at the tops. Within each tier, three bays of window openings are divided at each story by carved spandrels. A marble cornice with large modillions and end brackets crowns the facade.

Some of the cast-iron storefront framing members, which date to 1913, survive at the ground floor. A wood transom, a door frame, and a diamond plate step remain in the entrance bay. A restaurant occupied the first story at the time of the 1913 storefront alteration.

The Cortlandt Alley elevation is faced in red brick above a high base with cast-iron bay framing. Some four-over-four kalamein windows survive; historic iron shutters and a fire escape also remain.

In the 1890s tenants included Max Schwartz, a notions and furnishing goods dealer of Denver, Colorado, and Charles Rosenberg, a dealer in hosiery, gloves, and knit goods. Before being converted to residential in the early 1990s, occupants of the building included The Fabric Co., Inc. and a dance company. The ground floor is currently occupied by the apparel store Boys 'N' Chicks.