68 Jane Street (New York City, New York)

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7-story Neo-Classical cooperative-apartment building completed in 1897 as a factory. Designed by David H. King Jr., it is clad in tan-orange brick above a 2-story base of beige brick. Despite its address being 68 Jane, the main entrance is actually on the east facade on Greenwich Street. Here the base has a 2-story central round-arch with tripartite window infill, with paneled spandrels dividing the two floors. The ground floor has a segmental-arched opening to either side, with the entry in the south bay. It has wood-and-glass double-doors, sidelights, and a divided, arched transom. The north bay has a double-window with separate upper panes, behind an iron grille. The upper floors have paired windows in the end bays and three windows in the middle bay, except the 4th-6th floors, where the center bay has a 3-story round-arch with tripartite windows. There are long brick quoins at the edges of the facade beginning above the base, which is capped by a stone cornice. A projecting stone balcony with a row of seven lion's head modillions begins the 3-story arch. The top floor has round-arched windows, and the facade is crowned by a projecting, black metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets.

The north facade on Jane Street has five bays. On the ground floor the middle three are segmental-arches with infill like the north bay on Greenwich. The east end bay has a narrower window, and the west end bay has a secondary entrance. The upper floors have paired windows in the middle bays and single-windows in the end bays. There are again quoins at the edges of the upper floors, and three 3-story round-arches at the 4th-6th floors. A black metal fire escape runs down the middle bay of the facade, which is crowned by the same roof cornice.

The building was converted to a residential co-op in the mid-1970s, with 14 apartments.