130 Tenth Avenue

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4-story residential building completed in the 1840s, along with a pair of 2-story carriage houses at the rear of the lot that were added in the 1880s, along West 18th Street. The taller corner building is faced in beige smooth stucco (painted rust red on the ground floor). The southern wall along West 18th has only a single bay of windows, covered by a fire escape. A large, colorful mural featuring Mother Teresa and Gandhi was painted on the upper floors in 2018, also coloring the fire escape. The building is crowned on both facades by a grey-green metal roof cornice with scrolled brackets, dentils, and panels. The ground floor was combined with those of the two neighboring buildings to the north in the 1930s into an automobile repair and tire shop owned by Congo Tire and Rubber Company, which remained in the buildings until the '70s.

A small, 1-story red brick extension contains the entrance to the restaurant. The two smaller buildings at the rear of the lot are both clad in red brick, painted at the ground floor to match the corner building. They have been joined internally, with the former entrance to the middle building bricked in. Its 2nd floor features a large central dentiled brick arch around a window, with a narrower dentiled brick arch on either side. A wooden dentiled cornice caps the roof. The easternmost building has two windows on the 2nd floor with stone sills and lintels, a trio of star-ended metal tie-through bars and a simple wooden roof cornice with two small attic windows built into the fascia board. The roof is slightly pitched.

The ground floor was occupied by La Luncheonette restaurant, which moved here in 1988 from its original location on Essex Street. It closed in 2015. It is now occupied by Chelsea Square Market.