682 Broadway

 apartment building  Add category

 Upload a photo

10-story neo-Classical residential building completed in 1903. Designed by J.W. Stevens as a warehouse, it is faced in white marble and has a 2-story base with rusticated piers at the ends. The narrower Broadway facade has two bays and rear facade facing the alley has three single windows, while the longer facade along Great Jones Street spans 12 bays. Each end bay has paired windows, and the middle bays have single windows, with transoms at the 2nd floor. There are projecting band courses between the floors, and a bracketed black iron cornice over the 8th floor, with has quarter-circle windows in the end bays. There is a slightly smaller black iron cornice with dentils at the roof line. A black iron fire escape runs down two of the bays on the north side. The rear elevation facing the alley is clad in reddish-brown brick (with quite a bit of replacement brick), with stone sills and lintels on the three windows at each floor.

By the 1920s, the building was occupied by offices and manufacturing lofts. It was converted to residential apartments around 1990, and the roof deck planted with trees. The ground floor is occupied by a GNC.