Sinclair Building

 Neoclassical (architecture), apartment building, 1909_construction

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12-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1909. Designed by Wm. H. Gompert as an office building for the Sinclair Realty Company, the building is L-shaped, with frontages on both Broadway and East 8th Street, and a narrow 1-bay extension to Astor Place. The Broadway facade is three bays wide, and the 8th Street facade is six bays, but they are otherwise similar. The 3-story base has limestone piers framing cast-iron infill and supporting a decorative terra-cotta band. The iron fascia over the storefronts has a leaf and vine motif. The southernmost bay on Broadway has a projecting entrance portico with grey polished granite columns and a decorative limestone hood.

The facade above the base has white brick piers and paneled terra-cotta spandrels. At the roof, the prominent white iron cornice has large brackets and dentils. A similar cornice tops the Astor Place wing, which has only outer piers, framing a central section of four windows per floor

It was converted to apartments in 1980. The ground floor is occupied by The Gap Men on Broadway, and Pret a Manger cafe on Astor Place.