Touro College

 university, office building

6-story Neo-Grec office building completed in 1881. Designed by William Schickel as a store, it extends through the block to 24th Street. The facade is clad in banded brick and brownstone on the 2nd floor; with mostly brick above.

On 23rd Street there is a modernized storefront of corrugated grey metal and glass, with burgundy awnings. The five floors above it are divided into six bays by piers: banded brick and brownstone on the 2nd floor, double-height pilasters with capitals on the 3rd and 4th floors, and a variety of molded and etched brownstone piers on the 5th and 6th floors. On the 2nd through 5th floors, each bay contains paired windows separated by a colonnette and flanked by quarter colonnettes; on the 5th floor they are set within segmental-arched openings. The 6th floor is composed of three windows per bay, separated by molded piers. The elaborate cornice, above a band of consoles and wheels, is surmounted by cresting which meets balustrades at the 2nd and 5th bays.

On 24th Street the facade is divided into a 3-bay eastern segment and a 5-bay western segment, both flanked by pilasters on the ground floor and simple brick piers on the 2nd-6th floors. On the ground floor, within the metal base, storefronts have been altered, but retain original black iron pilasters between the window panes, with green highlights. At the middle bay of the western segment, the new paired doors are flanked by thin versions of the base's pilasters, also partially painted green. The base is surmounted by a green cornice with diminuative corbels. On the red brick upper floors windows conform to three types: (1) 2nd-story flat-topped openings have one-over-one wood-framed windows; (2) 3rd-6th-floor segmental-arched openings have two-over-two wood-framed windows; and (3) all end openings have multi-paned, wood-framed windows. The eastern elevation is a plain brick wall.

Among the first tenants was The Knickerbocker Press of G.P. Putnam & Sons (founded in the 1840s,) which occupied the eastern half of the building. Other tenants included E.P. Dutton, publishers; Kate Field's Co-operative Store; silk, imported lace, shirtwaist, underware, and upholstery goods merchants.

It is currently the main building for Touro College, a professional school founded in 1971 and named for an 18th Century Jewish philanthropic family. The ground floor is occupied by Duggal Visual Solutions.