The Greenwich

 condominium, 1904_construction

180-foot, 12-story residential building completed in 1904. Designed by Cady, Berg & See as a 10-story department store for Henry Siegel, it occupies the Sixth Avenue blockfront from 13th to 14th Street. Not as grand as the Siegel-Cooper store on 18th Street, it stocked lower-priced merchandise. To compete with the hulking Elevated structure, the new building carried huge electric signs with ''6th Avenue's busy corner'' in script, and giant limestone portals as entrances on 14th, Sixth and 13th, though that on the avenue has been removed.

In 1914 Siegel was tried on fraud charges for falsifying data to secure further credit, and the 14th Street Store closed. It was converted by Franke Gottesegen Cox Architects into 67 condominiums in 2001, with two new recessed penthouse floors on the roof.

The 3-story base is clad in limestone, with a rounded northwest corner, and the ground floor now lined with storefronts. There is a high granite water table on the 13th Street side, where the main residential entrance now is. It has a stone enframement, with a blue-grey cast-iron transom, and stone entablature with a dentiled cornice reaching the 2nd floor. The south facade has five bays of paired windows, while the north has four, and the west elevation has 10 bays. At the eastern bay of the north facade is a 2-story round-arched framed by rusticated stone blocks. The rounded corner has five narrow windows per floor. A black metal cornice caps the ground floor storefronts, and a stone cornice caps the base on all three sides.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, horizontal limestone banding blocks overlaid on the outer piers. The 4th-7th floors have double-windows framed in black cast-iron, with rosettes at the center of each spandrel. Another stone cornice caps the 7th floor. The 8th-9th floors have 2-story round-arches in each bay, with triple-windows. Scrolled keystone cap each arch, and a dentiled band course sets off the 10th floor, which has recessed square windows. The 10th floor is crowned by a black iron roof cornice with dentils and alternating console brackets and rosettes. The two penthouse floors are set back. A small 5-story extension at the east end of the 13th Street side follows the basic pattern on the rest of the facade, with a black modillioned iron cornice above the 5th floor.

The ground floor includes a subway entrance, and is occupied by a Starbucks coffee, Huff & Puff Smoke Shop, Bagel Buffet, Sunglass Hut/LensCrafters, and New York Doctors Walk-in Urgent Care at the east-end extension.