250 Mercer Street Building B (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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12-story Georgian-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1901. Designed by William Wheeler Smith as stores, it is clad in limestone and red brick. The ground floor has rough stone bands, with smooth banded limestone on the 2nd floor. On the 3rd floor, the the stone bands alternate with brick, topped by a stone cornice. The windows have splayed lintels with tall keystones. There are smaller cornices above the 6th & 11th floors, and at the roof. In 1979, the building was converted by Henry George Greene to a cooperative-apartment complex that also includes the other eight buildings on the block. The ground floor is occupied by West 3rd Common restaurant, and Le Basket coffee and sandwich bar. The concrete wall on the west side is covered in a brightly colored painted mural of triangular shapes.