Tin Building by Jean-Georges (New York City, New York)

 restaurant, movie / film / TV location, commercial building

4-story Neo-Classical commercial building completed in 1907. Designed by the Berlin Construction Company as part of the old Fulton Fish Market, the "Tin Building" is owned by new York City Department of Business, Department of Ports & Terminals and originally served as a mercantile & commercial market facility in the South Street Seaport. The Tin Building was given its name in part because of its orange-painted aluminum siding on the three floors above the concrete ground floor, where the wholesalers received their supplies and sold their wares. Later on, the entire building was painted white.

The corrugated metal facade, ornamented with 2-story high paneled pilasters of sheet metal, Is surmounted by an entablature with an ornate modillioned and dentiled cornice carried on console brackets. This cornice is handsomely crowned by three large pediments above the three projecting bays of the facade. Each pediment also has modillions and dentils, and the triangular area in the center is ornamented by a cartouche with streaming floral patterns extending on either side. The cornices were rebuilt with fiberglass replacing the original metal ones following a 1995 fire. The fire came on the heels of several attempts by government to purge the fish market, because for decades, the Tin Building had served as a shadowy world for Mafia gangsters who thrived on alleged extortion, loan sharking, and money laundering rackets.

The large open ground floor is the sales room with mezzanine offices looking over this floor and the old boat landing at the rear. The ground floor is an Interesting example of pipe column construction combined with iron girders carrying the wood joists of the floor above. Brackets extending from the columns carry a canopy the length of the building along the west side.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, attempts were made to relocate the Fulton Fish Market out of the seaport area. Further alterations were made in 1995 by Wank Adams Slavin Associates. These efforts never materialized until 2005, when the fish market moved to a new facility in the Bronx in 2005. The Tin Building had been vacant since. In 2015, inspections revealed deterioration of the wooden piers supporting the building, as well as the New Market Building (old Fulton Fish Market), threatened collapse.

Recent plans to re-develop the seaport area include relocating the building 30 feet further down the pier to raise it out of the flood plain utilizing mostly new elements with many historic relics. It was rebuilt by Mancini•Duffy Architects with new interiors by Roman & Williams. The interior was used as a filming location for S2 of the HBO original series "And Just Like That/Sex and the City".

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