the coffin for this section of Canal Street. The business had been open since 1933, and is now being turned into two luxury residential properties. 304-306 Canal is currently being marketed by Vornado, while the proposals for 308 and 310 Canal were approved by the Landmarks Commission in April 2017.

301 Canal Street: At Canal and Broadway, another empty storefront is owned by United American Land, which purchased the building in 2017 for $5.4 million.

296 Canal Street, aka 415 Broadway: The National City Bank Building, a New York City Landmark and the predecessor to today’s Citibank, is today just another boarded up property owned by United American Land. A Walgreens/Duane Reade branch failed to make a go of it here over the past two years, leaving the building emptymall as having 27 booths and conditions that were “perilous to life.”

246-250 Canal Street: The Phoenix Mall, located just across the street from Little Chinatown, has also been shuttered, driving out a half-dozen small businesses. Renderings online show a two-story glass box taking its place. One of the casualties was the Excellent Dumpling House, in business since 1983, which closed in 2017.

235 Canal Street: The streetscape of Canal Street between Lafayette and Bowery is mostly unprotected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and is increasingly being turned into glass boxes, as more and more bank branches move in. This HSBC bank building opened at Canal and Centre Street in 2009.

184-194 Canal Street, aka 83 Mott Street: Standing in stark contrast to these newer glass towers is the On Leong