19 Bond Street

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5-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1880. Designed by Peter Tostevin as a store-and-loft building, it is clad in red brick. The Bond Street facade has two main bays, with two windows in each bay, except for the top floor, which has three. There is a grey-painted cast-iron storefront, which is slightly recessed. The brick piers have stone bases and bands with bas-relief rosettes. The 2nd-3rd floors have incised stone lintels that are slightly arched; on the 4th-5th floors, the lintels are flat and lack the incised designs. There are various brick patterns in the spandrels between floors. The facade is topped by a corbelled brick cornice, a stone stringcourse, and stone brackets with a molded cornice between.

The longer Lafayette Street elevation is painted red; this was originally a party wall with a neighboring building (now gone). The casement windows were cut into the wall in the late 20th century. They have flat stone lintels and three of the bays have balconettes with metal railings. The south facade is also clad in red brick. It originally had five bays of windows, but the westernmost one has been filled-in. At the roof line a metal railing surrounds the roof deck on both the south and west elevations.

By 1907, the building was also used as a factory. In 1922, it was bought by Herman Gerofsky whose family business dealing in papermaking supplies were the sole tenants of the building until about 1985, when it was converted to condominiums. The ground floor is occupied by Grande Central Kitchen, Bath Tile & Stone, and Adore boutique.