228 Bleecker Street

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6-story, ornate Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1901. Designed by Michael Bernstein, it is clad in red brick and limestone, with a green, cast-iron ground floor. A brown metal cornice caps the ground level restaurant. The outer bays on both facades are projected forward, with a chamfered corner at the intersection. All of the windows in these bays (except for those on the chamfered side, which have been filled in) have full stone enframements or white brick quoins. The 2nd floor has rounded pediments, while the floors above have triangular pediments. The remaining windows of the 2nd floor also have full stone enframements, with triangular pediments. The rest of the windows have splayed stone lintels with scrolled keystones, except for one central bay on the Bleecker Street side, which has the 2nd & 3rd-floor windows, and the 4th & 5th grouped by rough stone quoins. The lower group has a rounded pediment on top, and the upper group has a triangular pediment. A small stone cornice runs across the base of the top floor, and a brown iron fire escape runs down each facade. The building is crowned on both sides by a white, projecting metal roof cornice. The exposed southern wall is clad in plain, light-grey brick. The ground floor is occupied by Rare restaurant, and Trattoria Spaghetto restaurant.