The original location, about eight blocks away on the same street, fell through.

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During filming, a longtime factory hand told Mr. Levine about the townhouse on Pitt Street where Aron Streit and a partner, Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, made matzo from 1916 to 1925, at which point Streit's moved four blocks to its current location and Weinbrger stayed behind, making matzos into the '40s.

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One can only admire Vinoly's ingenuous solution to the puzzle set by a rather difficult location -- a kind of trapezoid of space comprising about two city blocks, hemmed in on one side by the Japan National Railway lines and on the other by the financial district.

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