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.
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.