625 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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12-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1898. Designed by David W. King as a store-and-loft building, it spans through the block to Mercer Street. The Broadway facade is clad in limestone, banded on the first four floors. The 2-story base has cast-iron infill and a bracketed and dentiled stone cornice with carved swag. The windows on the upper floors are recessed, with splayed stone lintels on the 5th & 6th, and 9th & 10th floors. There is a dentiled stone cornice above the 4th floor, and smooth cornices above the 7th, 8th, & 11th floors, with a prominently projecting metal roof cornice above the round-arched windows of the top floor. The ground floor on Broadway is occupied by a Chipotle burrito restaurant.

On the Mercer side, the building is clad in buff-colored brick. There are dentiled stone cornices above the 2nd, 4th, & 7th, and smooth stone cornices above the 8th & 11th floors. The windows above the 4th floor have splayed stone lintels, and those on the top floor are round-arched. The ground floor is occupied by Gonzalez y Gonzalez Mexican restaurant. The building was occupied by small manufacturing firms throughout most of the 20th century, and was converted to offices around 1980.