171 Third Avenue (New York City, New York) | apartment building

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3-story Greek-revival residential building completed in 1847. Originally part of a row built between 1845-47 for merchant John Pickersgill, it has always had a store at the ground floor. The facade is clad in red brick above a white-painted stone and cast-iron, with a white wooden residential door on the left, and a plate-glass show-window and commercial entrance on the right. A dentiled cornice caps the ground floor.

The upper floors have three bays of single-windows with brownstone lintels carved with a modified ogee arch. A dentiled cornice above a plain brick fascia defines the roof.

Upon completion, the upper floors became home to the blue collar Worster family. In 1853 Frank Schaeffler listed his address here. The store was home was to J. O'Neil's pharmacy until 1852. The business was purchased by druggist John Williams, who remained until 1856. That year the space was converted to a saloon. In 1859 it was purchased by John Hayward who renamed it the Hayward House. In 1861, with the Civil War breaking out, the business was purchased by Frank Rimington who retained the saloon's name and continued to market it as a high-end business. Rimington operated the Hayward House through 1868 when he sold it the business to Thomas Oakley. The neighborhood was now on the northern fringe of what was known as Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany, and Oakley renamed it Germania Hall. In 1879 the former saloon space became the upholstery shop of Basler & Bischoff, followed by a cigar shop, a plumbing business, Dr. A. F. Johnson's veterinary office, and by 1922 it was the real estate office of Thomas Ford, who would sell real estate and insurance from the space at least into the mid-1950s. In 2007 Kelli Bernard opened Amai Tea and Bake House in the store. The space was more recently home to Jack's Sliders and Sushi, opening in 2013 and closing in 2021, and is now occupied by Onigiri Tanakaya restaurant.