Balconied

This building, like many others of its era nearby, also has a balconied room on a top floor where traditional Chinese family associations would meet.

Located in a former sign factory and set up as a modern spin on a balconied dinner theater, the Box was conceptualized by a third partner, the downtown fixture Serge Becker, and designed by Cordell Lochin in low-life archaeological style.

“It’s going to be kind of like Seagate,” said Rufus Earle, proprietor of Leatherworks by Rufus, a cowboy shop on the ground floor of a balconied flat-faced house on 78th Street that looks like it blew in from a Western movie set.