Looking west down Canal Street from Essex on the Lower East Side, New York City with the classic Jarmulovsky’s Bank building rising into the sky. Jarmulovsky’s Bank, on the southwest corner of Canal and Orchard Streets, was built as a privately-owned bank in 1912 by former street merchant Sender Jarmulovsky, who started a bank with his savings in 1873, catering to his fellow Lower East Siders of modest means. For its first few years, Jarmulovsky’s bank was a genuine success in a neighborhood of savers, and he hired the architectural firm of Rouse and Goldstone to build a magnificent bank build


Looking west down Canal Street from Essex on the Lower East Side, New York City with the classic Jarmulovsky’s Bank building rising into the sky. Jarmulovsky’s Bank, on the southwest corner of Canal and Orchard Streets, was built as a privately-owned bank in 1912 by former street merchant Sender Jarmulovsky, who started a bank with his savings in 1873, catering to his fellow Lower East Siders of modest means. For its first few years, Jarmulovsky’s bank was a genuine success in a neighborhood of savers, and he hired the architectural firm of Rouse and Goldstone to build a magnificent bank building. Sender Jarmulovsky passed away shortly after the building opened, believing he had started an institution that would pass the test of time; but the bank did not survive World War I.


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Location: Manhattan, New York City, USA
Photo credit: © David Grossman / Alamy / Afripics
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