The Cable Building is located at 611 Broadway at the northwest corner with Houston Street in NoHo and Greenwich Village, in Manhattan, New York City.

It has a limestone base with a two-story arcade featuring show windows graced by iron spandrels and elegant keystones.

It is a nine-story Beaux-Arts structure, which impressively captures White's design principles of the "American Renaissance".

Among those who acquired a family vault was William Backhouse Astor, a member of St. Thomas’ original vestry.

Removal of the burial vaults in the churchyard posed a difficulty in the sale of St. Thomas’ church property at Broadway and Houston.

They were powered by four Corliss steam engines 38" x 60", 1200 HP each, developed by the Dickson Manufacturing Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

There were 18 high pressure coal fired Heine boilers totaling 4,500 HP built in St Louis Missouri which powered the engines, the dynamo and heating.

[11] The upper seven floors contained offices arranged around a large internal court with two rectangular light wells.

From the 1940s to 1970s, the Cable Building housed mainly garment makers, which was the prevailing use in that area at the time.