106 GREENWICH STREET

1879
William Graul

The five-story brick tenement and store at 106 Washington Street was built in 1879, just as the Syrian community began taking root in this part of Lower Manhattan. The building’s neo-Grec style cornice remains, though the storefronts have been altered and other facade ornament removed. Built almost to the rear lot line with four apartments per floor and only two small airshafts, 106 Washington Street is representative of the old-law tenement that prevailed before the introduction of stricter housing laws around the turn of the century.

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