Jarmulowsky Bank Building

You are looking at the Jarmulowsky Bank Building, a twelve-story limestone and terra-cotta tower that stands as a relic of the Lower East Side during its era as the world's most populous Jewish enclave. Completed in nineteen twelve, the structure was the showpiece of Sender Jarmulowsky, an immigrant from the Russian province of Lomza who rose to become a neighborhood titan. He built this Beaux-Arts edifice to serve the local immigrant community, offering services in Yiddish and Russian that allowed people to open accounts, send money home, and even purchase trans-Atlantic steamship tickets for their families. It was described at the time as the first high-class, tall office and bank building in the neighborhood, a physical manifestation of the success stories that the residents of the surrounding tenements aspired to achieve.