Kostabi World | office building, art museum / art gallery

 office building, art museum / art gallery

6-story office building completed in 1873. Designed by Griffith Thomas as a store, the building is L-shaped, with six bays on the Broome Street elevation, and a second, narrower 3-bay facade at 62 Wooster Street. It is composed of green-painted cast-iron (black at the ground floor), with banded stone piers at the ends of the Broome Street facade. The windows are separated by Corinthian columns and pilasters (Doric on Wooster), with projecting cornices at each floor on the Wooster Street side. On Broome Street, the top floor has smaller round-arched windows, and is topped by a bracketed and modillioned roof cornice with a small triangular pediment in the center. Two urns, almost Moorish in appearance, are perched at each end of the building. The Wooster facade is topped by a flat cornice with brackets and modillions.

The building houses Kostabi World, artist Mark Kostabi's large New York studio known for openly employing numerous painting assistants and idea people (founded in 1988).

www.markkostabi.com