Entrance to the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, ca. 1975. Designed in the neo-Italian Renaissance style by William Schickel and constructed between 1883 and 1884, the German Dispensary served the medical needs of the neighborhood's poorest citizens first as the Ottendorfer Clinic and then Deutsche Poliklinik. Temporarily renamed the Stuyvesant Polyclinic during the anti-German sentiment of the First World War, the named was permanently changed during the Second World War. A clinic remained in the building until 2006. Purchased for $13 million, it underwent a massive interior and exterior renovation, uncovering and restoring original stained glass long cemented over. Today the building is the home of the Gehl Institute, a global urban design and policy organization.

Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital ARCHITECT: William Schickel DATE: 1883-84 STYLE: Neo-Italian Renaissance This building is an exceptionally handsome building designed in a modified version of the neo-Italian Renaissance style. The extensive and imaginative use of molded terra cotta on the facade was innovative when the building was constructed. The ornament is especially Interesting for its series of portrait busts depicting famous physicians and scientists.

Julian Baczynsky opened his meat market on Second Avenue in 1970 at a time when this section of the East Village was an Eastern European enclave. Selling house-made smoked meats from Polish and Ukrainian recipes, he was popular among locals. While the demographics of the neighborhood have changed drastically in the ensuing decades, the Meat Market, with its original signage, remains. With steady business year round, the weeks before Easter are particularly busy. People travel from all over the city, waiting in lines to procure kielbasa for their traditional Eastern European Easter celebrations.