11 Bleecker Street

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3-story Federal (with Italianate alterations) residential building originally completed in about 1825 as a 2-story house. In 1866-67, a story was added by Ludwig Anger, who owned and occupied the building through 1880, and whose heirs retained possession of the building until 1914. Anger also added up-to-date ornament, including its bracketed wood roof cornice with paneled frieze, to the 3-bay facade, which is clad in red brick above a white cast-iron storefront. The windows have sandstone sills and lintels, and there is a green-painted wrought-iron fire escape.

In 1923, Ben Trachtenberg purchased the building and converted it to a store and loft for his fur business, Benjamin Trachtenberg & Sons-in-Law. Trachtenberg lost the building in 1934 in a foreclosure, after which the building appears to have stood vacant until the mid-1940s. It was then occupied by a variety of fur companies, hat manufacturers, and machine shops. By the 1960s, loft dwellers began to take over the vacant upper stories of the building. It is currently used as apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Quartino Bottega Organica restaurant.