Master masons restoring Tribeca's historic façades, stoops, and ironwork since 1995. LPC-approved for Manhattan historic districts.
Tribeca contains the largest concentration of 19th-century commercial cast iron and masonry storefronts in the United States — designated across four historic districts between 1991 and 2002. The neighborhood developed primarily as wholesale warehousing and dry-goods commerce from 1860 to 1900, and the surviving buildings are an extraordinary museum of period commercial architecture.
Tribeca was developed in the post-Civil War commercial boom as the wholesale district serving New York's port commerce. Buildings here are predominantly four to six stories with cast iron storefronts, brick or stone façades above, and substantial cornices. The architecture is more commercial than residential, but the residential conversion of Tribeca's warehouses since the 1970s has made the neighborhood a major luxury residential market — and the restoration of original façade detail is a significant ongoing market.
Notable streets: Greenwich Street, Hudson Street, North Moore Street, Franklin Street, Duane Street, Reade Street.
Tribeca buildings have unusually complex façade assemblies — cast iron storefronts on the ground floor, brick or carved limestone above, often with iron and stone alternating courses, and elaborate galvanized sheet metal cornices at the top. Each material has different restoration requirements, and projects typically involve coordinating multiple specialty crafts on the same façade. Loft conversions also frequently require window replacement, which on landmarked buildings requires LPC review with period-appropriate steel or wood specifications.
Cast iron storefront restoration and replication; brick and limestone façade restoration on the upper floors; galvanized sheet metal cornice repair; LPC-compliant window replacement; comprehensive façade restoration for residential loft conversions; multi-craft coordination on commercial-to-residential rehabs.
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