337 Lafayette Street

 office building, 1922_construction

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3-story brown-brick office building completed in 1922. Designed by Louis A. Scheinart, the Lafayette Street facade spans five wide bays of four windows each, grouped together in black iron framings. The bays themselves are framed by brown brick, capped by a metal coping and railing on the roof top. The corner piers extend up past the roof parapet and form posts, capped in stone, for the railings. The Bleecker Street facade spans two bays. The ground floor is lined with storefronts, occupied by BrowNY International vintage clothing, Chalkboard T-shirts, and KD New York boutique.

In the early years, the building's tenants included fur and garment firms, house and window cleaning contractors, electrical contractors, printers, an automobile ignition service company and medical services. Activist organizations have predominated since he sale of the building to the War Resister’s League in 1971 and continue to do so under the current owner, the A. J. Muste Memorial Institute, both of whom have their offices in the building.