832 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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10-story cooperative-apartment building completed in 1896. Designed by Jacob Zimmerman as a commercial lofts building, it has a 2-story base of rusticated limestone, with piers sitting on granite plinths. Twin entrances at the end bays framed a storefront topped by a wide black cast-iron band with foliate patterns. Each entryway is framed by stone with rosettes and has a pair of scrolled brackets supporting a triangular pediment. At the 2nd floor, the four main piers have capitals with Greek fret designs, and the four center windows are divided by black iron mullions, with a narrow iron balcony in front.

The 3rd floor is transitional, also clad in rusticated limestone, with scrolled stone brackets on the five middle piers supporting a stone balcony with balustrade at the 4th floor. The 4th-6th floors have beige brick piers with stone banding on the four outer ones that features Greek fret designs. The middle piers have intricate carvings. The end bays of the 5th floor have prominent stone window surrounds topped with triangular pediments, and also have small stone balconies with balustrades, supported by pairs of scrolled brackets. The wide, continuous spandrel panels between the centers of the 4th, 5th & 6th floors are ornamented with swags.

The 7th-8th floors have plain brick piers, projecting forward at the outer bays, with balustrades at the base of the 7th floor windows. Individual spandrel panels have carved stone ornament, and the 8th-floor windows are round-arched with keystones. A dentiled band course sets off the top floors, which have stone surrounds and ornament on the piers. The facade is crowned by a grey-green metal roof cornice with modillions and dentils.

Most of the early tenants were clothing manufacturers. By the turn of the century the tenants were somewhat more diverse. Although, in 1907, apparel manufacturers like Lewine Brothers which made neckwear were still represented, other industries were leasing space. Murphy & Ronan were makers of wagons, Max Kurzrok ran his real estate business here and the Decorative Plant Company, as the name suggests, manufactured artificial plants. Throughout the next decades the building would be home to assorted apparel manufacturers; The Big Four Manufacturing Company, Goldstein & Levy, and Ashland Textile among them. In 1948, the building was joined internally with No. 830 next door. The New Century Publishers remained in the building into the 1960s, co-existing with garment and accessory manufacturers. In 1982, the building was converted to luxury cooperative apartments, one per floor. The ground floor is occupied by Forbidden Planet comics.