The Left Bank

 apartment building  Add category

7-story residential building completed in 1890 as a loft building. Designed by D. & J. Jardine, it opened as the Ross Building, and was occupied for many years by a variety of commercial enterprises. It was then used as a warehouse, showroom and sales training center by the General Electric Company. Thereafter it was vacant for a number of years.

It was remodeled and converted to apartments in 1968, and renovated in 2012. The two-story base section, of iron and glass, contrasts well with the red brick upper floors. Striking green cast-iron columns embellish the first two floors. Light colored stone provides a welcome accent at the windowsills, lintels, and horizontal band courses uniting the windows at mid-height. A simple but well designed roof cornice, with central pediment on each side, has panels and dentils between supporting blocks. The building has a truncated corner between the Bank and Greenwich Street fronts. The ground floor is occupied by a Duane-Reade pharmacy, and The Marrow restaurant.