This is a real rags to riches story. Not to long ago a large, decorative building located at 620 Avenue of the Americas, a street once lined with department stores and commonly referred to as Ladies' Mile, was an ugly duckling. Today, it's one of the handsomest buildings in the neighborhood. It's also one of the richest, in terms of rent roll. This is the building that houses the Bustling Bed, Bath & Beyond. It's also home to T.J. Maxx and Filene's Basement.

Rosenwach Tank took on the delicate job of replacing the steel tank with a new redwood tank, and agreed to do so with the understanding that it would not make so much as a peep. Complicating their task was the fact that directly below was an architect's office with a highly polished ceiling. Precautions were taken and the tank replacement proceeded. When the job was done, the ceilings in the architect's office had suffered not so much as a blemish.

Plus, Rosenwach Tank, as always, lived up to its agreement. While the tank was being installed, you could have heard a pin drop.

The Community Health Project is New York's only lesbian and gay health center. Founded in 1983 as a result of a merger of St. Mark's Community Clinic and the Gay Men's Health Project, CHP provides low cost, high quality health care to New York City's lesbian and gay community, without regard to anyone's ability to pay. CHP's 36 paid staff and it's more than 150 volunteers provide a wide range of medical and health-related services, including HIV/AIDS services, to more than 26,000 individuals.

Many of these people cannot afford private health care. Others choose to come to CHP because it offers innovative health services and programs that have been sensitively designed to meet their special needs.

In 1994, CHP secured public funding to develop a new-state -of-the-art primary health care facility. The following year, after a decade-long search, CHP purchased a six-story building on West 18th Street in Chelsea. This building will one day be the new home of CHP. The building needs renovations, however, and part of these renovations involves installing a new wood tank on the roof. Rosenwach Tank was brought in to do the job.

A big part of Rosenwach Tank's business is cleaning and replacing tank linings. This is precisely what they did at an office building located at 641 Lexington Avenue. The job entailed blasting clean a 10,000 gallon steel house and standpipe tank, and coating it with a ¾ inch PreKrete cementitous lining.

It is very important not to disturb tenants when taking on complex disruptive jobs such as this one. Therefore, Rosenwach accepted the assignment with the understanding that they would work day and night in an effort to ensure that the work would be done during the course of the weekend. No glitches were encountered, and the work, which was commenced on a Friday evening, was indeed completed by late Sunday.