Russian Samovar

 restaurant, commercial building, Russian cuisine

4-story commercial building completed in the 1870s. It is clad in grey stone above a ground floor of red brick, which has two glass doors and a metal service door. The upper floors are recessed back from the building line, and have three bays of single-windows (the western two bays at the 2nd floor have glass doors instead, accessing the small terrace with metal railing that is created by the setback). A dark-red, angled canvas awning covers the 2nd floor. The top two floors have small, iron, balconette railings at the bases of the windows, and the facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with brackets, modillions, and panels.

The lower floors are occupied by Russian Samovar restaurant. It was founded on May 24, 1986, which is also the birthday of of the Nobel winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was the owner of the restaurant. Joseph Brodsky opened the restaurant in partnership with a great entrepreneur Roman Kaplan and famous Russian ballet dancer Michael Baryshnikov.

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