2 Horatio Street NYC

It faces north onto Horatio Street and Jackson Square Park. And borders Greenwich Avenue to the east. In April 1929 the developer brothers Bing & Bing announced that they had acquired all the necessary land to build five high-end residential buildings in a concerted effort to "recreate" the Greenwich Village neighborhood.

2 Horatio Street was one of the five buildings: the others being 45 Christo

pher Street, 59, 299 and 302 West 12th Street. For 2 Horatio Bing & Bing chose architect Robert T. Lyons whom they had just finished working with on the Gramercy Park Hotel, which had opened just a few years earlier in 1925.

2 Horatio Street is rendered in red and brown brick. It has Art Deco references that include four horizontal, terra cotta decorations using Greek key motifs at the fourth and sixteenth floors and circle-in-square motifs at the cornice. Granted an occupancy license on August 7, 1931 the building operated initially as an apartment hotel with a dining room on the ground floor. A significant addition was added in 1963 fronting Horatio Street adding four apartments per floor. The building was sold by Bing & Bing in 1985 and became cooperative apartments in 1987.