17-19 Bleecker Street

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7-story Neo-Classical residential building completed in 1909. Designed by Frederick Ebeling as a store-and-loft building, it is seven bays wide. Above the 2nd floor the center bay is separated from the others by narrow brick piers. The side piers and decorative spandrels are also clad in red brick. The rest of the windows bays are divided by wide metal mullions, and the windows have steel lintels decorated with rosettes. An iron fire escape runs down the center of the facade, which is crowned by a bracketed pressed-metal roof cornice with dentils and paneled frieze.

In the 1930s and 40s, this building was occupied mainly by small manufacturers of garments such as furs, caps, collars, trousers, hats, and slippers. After World War Two, they were joined by paper companies, light fixture manufacturers, toy makers, and electronics firms. In the 1960s, the upper floors began to be used for residential, although some manufacturers remained into the 1980s. In the late 1980s, the building was completely converted to apartments with a ground-level storefront. The ground level is occupied by Q Hair.