395 Broadway

Our team worked on the restoration of 395 Broadway, a historic steel frame commercial building that was converted to residences, located within the Tribeca East Historic District in Manhattan. The limestone street facades on Broadway and Walker Streets feature cast iron spandrels at the second floor and an ornate sheet metal cornice. The secondary elevations are made of brick.

Our scope of work for Phase I of this project included stone restoration and resetting, brick masonry restoration and rebuilding, re-roofing, and bulkhead cladding. We also restored the cornice, which involved refabrication of applied formed zinc lions' heads, rosettes, and modillion brackets. Additionally, we installed a new public roof deck as part of the project. Our team ensured that all work was carried out in compliance with the regulations set forth by the Landmarks Preservation Commission to preserve the historic character of the building and the surrounding area.

Twenty years after the completion of the first phase of restoration, CTA was retained to perform another campaign of work.  While the parapet, roof and cornice work done in 2002 is aging and performing well, other issues, primarily with the original limestone street elevations and the brick secondary elevations, required attention.  The 1901 Indiana Limestone facade is composed of large deep blocks of stone that are subject to corrosion related conchoidal spalling at ferrous cramp anchor locations.  These bent iron cramps continue to corrode inside the dimensional stone and have led to the loss of some material due to spalling. 

The work of this second phase included the cutting out of the deteriorated anchors, preparation and installation of new stone dutchmen at various locations.  The Dutchmen are fabricated from matching Indiana Buff Limestone and finished to match the existing 1901 facade stone.  In addition, cracked and displaced original brickwork at the secondary elevations was locally rebuilt and repointed.  As with all work on this designated New York City Landmark, materials and installation was reviewed and approved by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission staff.