23. Building at 19 Rector Street

AKA: 19 Rector Street; 88 Greenwich Street; The Greenwich Club
Location: 19 Rector Street
Built: 1930
Architects: Lafayette A. Goldstone and Alexander Zamshnick
National Register Number: 02000551
Listed: May 5, 2002
Visited: September 7, 2007



Another commercial building turned condo. If I could find any substantive documentation on 19 Rector Street other than this page at NYCJPG, maybe I'd find myself wanting to talk about the setbacks or the geometric decoration. Instead, it's the neon sign that I love. I'm guessing that it's a later interloper -- it blocks a particularly striking bit of terra cotta -- but I get all gushy when I think of its life, telling the drivers emerging from the Brooklyn-Battery about 19 RECTOR STREET in all weather, day and night, year after year, in 5000 pt Futura type.