594-596 Broadway (New York City, New York)

 store / shop, office building

170-foot, 12-story office building completed in 1898. Designed by Buchman & Deisler as a store, it is clad in limestone. It has a 2-story base with rusticated piers and segmental-arched windows on the outer bays of the 2nd floor. There are a total of six bays of double-windows. Above a dentiled stone cornice, the 3rd floor is transitional, also with rusticated piers. The 4th floor has stone balconies with balustrades, supported by scrolled brackets, and projecting forward over the center four bays. The center windows of the 5th floor have segmental-arched windows with large scrolled keystones.

Large cartouches top the outer bays of the 9th floor, with the 10th floor windows above framed by columns supporting pediments. Large fluted columns on this floor separate the central windows. The building is crowned by a green copper roof cornice with paired brackets and modillions. The ground floor is occupied by Sunglass Hut, OMG Jeans, and Desigual (Barcelona‑based clothing chain). The building also contains the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.

On the Crosby Street side, the facade is clad in brown brick with rustications on the first three floors, and divided into two halves of five bays each. The bottom two floors have metal pilasters separating the bays, fluted on the 2nd floor. Some original ornament on the spandrel panels has been removed. The ground floor on this side is occupied by Housing Works.