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Plumbing Built for Chinatown's Tenements, Mixed-Use Buildings and Restaurants

Chinatown has some of the oldest occupied buildings in Manhattan. Five- and six-story tenements on Mott, Mulberry, Bayard, Pell and Doyers Street that went up in the 1880s and 1890s with a shared water closet in the hall and a cold-water tap in the kitchen. The bathrooms inside the apartments came later, fitted into whatever corner had room, connected to stacks that were already old. A lot of those pipes are still there.

Under the apartments are restaurants, bakeries, fish markets, produce stands and noodle shops running from early morning to late night. The kitchen plumbing takes a beating no residential system sees: grease by the barrel, floor drains that never dry, live seafood tanks, dish lines running twelve hours a day. When a restaurant's line backs up it comes up through the basement floor, and the apartments above lose their drains too.

NYC Plumber Co works in these buildings from an office a few blocks south on Liberty Street. Our plumbers know the tenement stack that serves twelve apartments through one four-inch cast iron pipe, the galvanized risers that give the top floor a trickle, the boiler in a cellar reached by a sidewalk hatch, and the owner who has had the building in the family for three generations and knows exactly where the shutoff is. We also work in Confucius Plaza, Chatham Towers and the newer buildings in Two Bridges, which have the opposite set of problems.

The neighborhood sits low and close to the East River on the combined sewer system. Heavy rain surcharges the mains and pushes back into cellars along East Broadway and Madison Street. Two Bridges flooded in Sandy. Backwater valves and sump pumps are a regular conversation here.

Timing Plumbing Work Around Chinatown Buildings and Businesses

Drain Cleaning, Boiler Repair, Gas and Commercial Plumbing for Chinatown Properties

Emergencies, Repairs and a Simple Process in Chinatown

Work in Chinatown ranges from a running toilet in a Mott Street walk-up to a full kitchen re-plumb for a new restaurant on Bayard Street. The process stays simple.

Call (929) 717-4784 or send the form. Tell us the building and the problem. A licensed plumber comes in the window, looks at it, explains it, and gives you a written price before starting. The work is done, tested and cleaned up. Filings with DOB or DEP, when the job needs them, are ours to handle.

Whether you own a building on Mulberry Street, run a restaurant on East Broadway, or rent a top-floor apartment with no water pressure, call NYC Plumber Co at (929) 717-4784 or request your free estimate.