250 Mercer Street, Building F

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6-story Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1892. Designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as a warehouse, it is clad in tan brick above a cast-iron base, painted light grey on the 1st floor and darker grey on the 2nd. The brick piers on the upper floors project slightly, and have stone footings and capitals. There are corbelled brick panels below the 4th-floor windows, and a cornice above. The top-floor windows are round-arched, with a red metal projecting roof cornice above. A white metal fire escape runs down the right two-thirds of the facade, partly adjoining the small landings on the building to the west. It was converted by Henry George Greene in 1979 to a cooperative-apartment complex that also includes the other eight buildings on the block. The ground floor is occupied by a portion of the Dojo restaurant.