Poly

While walking around the Lower East Side, the 1884 Stuyvesant Polyclinic:

A big chunk of the LES in the numbered streets (now called Alphabet City) was a German immigrant neighborhood (called Kleindeutschland) in the late 1800s. After the General Slocum disaster decimated the neighborhood, much of the German population moved uptown to Yorkville, which is why we don’t now generally think of the LES as German. In any case, the clinic was originally called the German Dispensary, and if you look over the door you can see “DEUTSCHES DISPENSARY” in the frieze. The smaller matching building to the left has always been a library.

It’s worth noting that this building, constructed as a clinic for the poor, is one of the few architect-designed buildings in the area, with some great terra cotta ornament.