708 Greenwich Street

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6-story (and 4-story) residential building originally completed as two separate structures. The southern building, 704-706 Greenwich Street, was completed first, as a 4-story Romanesque-revival stable. Designed by Julius F. Munckwitz, it has a rockfaced brownstone base and is clad in orange brick on the upper floors, with brownstone lintels, brownstone and brick banding and a metal cornice. There are segmentally- arched window openings at the third floor and arch-headed window openings at the fourth floor and at two window openings at the ground floor. The visible south facade has window openings and a stripe painted gray at the edge of the building. The remains of painted signs are visible at the front and south facades. The former stable/truck entrances were filled in with glass blocks when the building was joined with 708 Greenwich.

708 Greenwich was completed later, in 1909. Designed by Moore & Landsiedel, it was a 6-story Neo-Classical warehouse. A 25-foot wide addition on the north side was completed in 1912, designed by Matthew W. Del Gaudio, but following the style of the original building. The facade is clad in ironspot yellow brick at the 2-story base and red brick at the upper floors and the corbelled cornice. The base has monumental brick pilasters. The lintels, sills and the cornice at the base, and the sills at the upper floors, are stone. Star-shaped iron ties are present at the south edge of the upper floors.

Nos. 708-712 Greenwich Street and the former stables building next door at No. 704-706 Greenwich Street were combined onto one lot and converted in 1978-80 into apartments by Rothzeid, Kaiserman & Thomson. The ground floor at No. 708 is occupied by Garber's Hardware.