2 Cornelia Street Lofts (New York City, New York)

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12-story residential building completed in 1907. Designed by Fred Eberling as a store-and-lofts building, it is clad in buff-colored brick above a ground floor lined with storefronts and a rusticated limestone 2nd floor. The windows are organized into bays of three, recessed between the piers. There are checkerboard patterns of brown brick in the spandrels between the 3rd & 4th floors, and between the 5th & 6th. The top three floors also have brown brick striping on the piers, each of which rises above the roof line. There is additional brown brick banding on the lower floors of the Cornelia Street facade, where the residential entrance is located. The rear wall facing away from the intersection is clad in plain concrete with a mish-mash of variously sized and shaped windows. Filling a triangular lot similar to that on which the famed Flatiron Building sits, 2 Cornelia Street is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Flatiron, and was also formerly known as the Varitype Building. The corners at the narrow end are rounded, with a single bay of windows in between. The building was converted to residential in 1980. The ground floor is occupied by Village Pop tattoo and piercing, Crazy Fantasy party store, and Papaya Dog.