(Photo: Frank Mastropolo)
While researching our recent story on ghost signs, we were saddened to discover that a Lower East Side classic has disappeared. The façade of 19 Kenmare Street used to boast a 1940s-era sign for two companies still in business: P. Zaccaro Co. Real Estate and J. Eis and Son, an appliance store. Workers have removed the iconic hand-painted ad.
Philip Zaccaro started his real estate company in 1918, which later moved to its current location at 218 Lafayette Street. J. Eis still sells appliances at 105 First Avenue, but has moved to the second floor from the storefront that used to display refrigerators and stoves.
(Photo: Frank Mastropolo)