593 Broadway (New York City, New York)

5-story marble-faced building completed in 1861 as a store. It has round-arched windows, and quoins at the northern edge of the Broadway facade. Upon completion, the T.S. Berry company moved into the building, selling pianos and reed organs. T.S. Berry moved in 1878, replaced by high-end men's furnishings importers and similar merchants. In 1893, Hodgman Rubber Company opened a showroom in 593, and moved its headquarters here five years later. In 1903, Joseph Schultz hat makers replaced the rubber company. Various apparel firms continued to occupy No. 593 throughout most of the 20th century. In 1993 the interior was renovated for the Museum for African Art, which remained until 2002.

The ground floor on Broadway is shared with the building to the south, with beige cast-iron pilasters and a dentiled cornice. The original Corinthian capitals have been removed from the pilasters on this facade. The upper floors are clad in marble, with three round-arched windows with keystones on the 2nd & 3rd floors that have rounded, hooded pediments over the center windows. The top two floors have smaller round-arched windows in the outer bays, and paired round-arched windows in the center. The two center windows on the 5th floor have keystones, as do all the windows on the 4th floor. The facade is topped by a roof cornice with paired brackets.

On Mercer Street, the 2-story cast-iron base is also very similar to that of the building to the south, with a raised residential entrance and a black metal stoop. The upper floors are clad in red brick, with four bays of windows and a black metal fire escape over the southern two bays. A simple metal roof cornice above a row of dentils caps the facade. The ground floor is currently occupied by half of a Victoria's Secret store.