Equinox Bond Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Victorian Romanesque residential building completed in 1874. Designed by George E. Harney as a store, it is faced in red brick and sandstone. It has three main subdivided bays on Broadway, and four of differing widths on Bond Street. The bays are separated by wide brick piers with elaborate iron tie plates above a black granite base. There are elaborate white cast-iron columns at storefront level, and white stone banding on the piers, capped by a decorative stone cornice with dentil courses. The piers are slightly projecting.

At the 2nd floor, there are three round-arched windows in each bay on Broadway; the Bond Street side has three windows in the westernmost bay, and two in the two eastern bays, with paired segmental-arched windows in the wider remaining bay. The windows are separated by engaged Corinthian columns, except for the one wide bay on Bond, where they are separated by pilasters with a vertical groove and foliate capital. The columns and pilasters support molded stone architraves. The 3rd floor has segmental-arched windows, divided by brick pilasters with ornate stone capitals carrying decorated stone lintels. Between the 3rd and 4th floors, the main piers have ornamental black iron ornamental figures attached.

The 4th floor has round-arched windows with stone architraves similar to those on the 2nd floor, but are divided by brick pilasters instead of stone columns. The top floors has smaller round-arched windows (four to a bay on Broadway, with four in the western Bond Street bay, two groups of three in the wide bay, and three in each of the eastern bays). All are separated by brick pilasters with stone capitals supporting stone lintels. Both main facades are topped by a corbelled brick parapet and a surmounting stone bracketed cornice. The far right window at each floor on Bond Street has been bricked-in for a shaftway. The rear facade on the alley is also clad in red brick, with stone lintels on the square-headed windows.

Brooks Brothers men's clothing occupied this store from 1874 to 1884. Another menswear company, Hornthal Whitehead & Weissman, occupied the building for many years afterwards, and it was then used by several small manufacturers. The building was converted to condominiums in the 2000s and is now largely--if not entirely--occupied by Equinox for its Bond Street location.