Ashforth Building

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150-foot, 12-story office building completed in 1908. Designed by Charles I. Berg, it has a 2-story limestone base with rusticated outer piers on pink granite bases. Above a modernized storefront and entrance, the 2nd floor has a tripartite window with transoms. The tops of the piers are ornamented with stone plaques bearing the number 10, above garlands. A modillioned cornice caps the base.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick on the outer piers, framing three black cast-iron-framed windows per floor. At the 10th floor there are angular stylized capitals at the piers supporting a black metal cornice. The top two floors have paneled piers dividing the three bays, and another black metal cornice crowns the facade. The western elevation is stuccoed at the lower floors, and clad in reddish-brown brick at the top six floors, with three bays of smallish windows near the front and two more at the rear, where a fire escape runs down the back wall. The ground floor is occupied by Hyun Korean Grill, with Manhattan Sports & Manual Physical Therapy on the 2nd floor.