240 Canal Street | commercial building

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3-story mercantile building completed in 1923. Designed by Morris Whinston, it is clad in white-painted brick. The Canal Street facade is the narrowest, just two bays wide. The Centre Street elevation has six bays, and there are three on Walker Street. The ground floor is lined with storefronts, with a building entrance below a small rounded pediment and an entrance to the Canal Street Subway Station in the center of the Center Street facade. The upper floors have windows framed in light-brown metal, a wider center window flanked by narrower ones, with short corresponding windows on top in each bay. Above a dentiled band course, the roof parapet is stepped up toward the center on each facade, and topped by a stone coping. Two large angled billboards are mounted on the roof. The ground floor is occupied by Peony Chinese Bonsai, Nature Republic Cosmetics & Beauty Supply, New York Gift Shop, Dumpling Cafe, Marine Corps Career Center, a general merchandise store, and Chatime bubble tea.