Cross Chambers Building

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122-foot, 11-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1903. Designed by John B. Snook & Sons as a loft and bachelor apartments building, the exquistely detailed building is faced in marble, cast-iron, brick and terra-cotta. Both the Broadway and 5th Avenue facades are three bays wide. Slender and elegant, it originally housed the Mark Cross leather store on its lower floors with bachelor apartments above.

The 2-story base is surmounted by a central cartouche and a curved balcony, supported by elaborate scrolled brackets and a decorative wrought-iron railing. The upper stories feature projecting, curved (3rd-4th floors) and angled (5th-9th floors) pressed-metal center bays. The 3rd & 4th floors have molded window surrounds with bracketed sills and scrolled keystones at the end bays. There are beige brick piers with quoins at the upper shaft. The 10th floor has a curved balcony with prominent supporting brackets and decorative wrought-iron railings. Between the brackets at the top of the 9th floor is a very elaborate cartouche and flanking carvings.

The building is topped by a green mansard roof featuring curved pediment scrolled brackets and elaborate carvings on the 5th Avenue side. The Broadway side has a simpler top floor, with a tripartite window in the center flanked by ornamented panels, and topped by a green copper roof cornice with curved brackets and surmounting antifixae.

The ground floor is occupied by Wagamama restaurant.