93 MacDougal Street

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6-story Colonial-revival residential building completed in 1907. Designed by John P. Voelker as a tenement, it is clad in reddish-brown brick, divided in the center of the south facade by a narrow groove into two sections, with four bays on the west and five bays on the east. The windows have splayed stone lintels, with some being larger and having scrolled keystones. Each half of the facade has a metal fire escape and a bracketed metal roof cornice at the top. The brackets are ringed by wreaths, and the cornice has a carved frieze.

The MacDougal Street elevation on the east has two center bays and two end bays on each side, with a pair of narrower bays in between. The windows are similar to those on Bleecker, as is the cornice. At the center of the ground floor, the entrance is flanked by elaborate console brackets supporting an entablature with rosettes and an egg-and-dart molding.

During the 1940s and '50s, a bar called the San Remo was located here, a popular hangout for noted writers such as Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. The ground floor is now occupied by the Bleecker Deli, Yogorino frozen yogurt, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and Villaggio Italian Bistro. For many years the corner storefront was the home of the San Remo Café, the hangout in the 1940s and 1950s of writers and poets like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Max Bodenheim, as well as artists, dancers, and composers such as John Cage, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline.