A laundry corner with a front-load washer in a doorman-building apartment with a compact stacked pair, seen from a low angle, the washer door catching the light.

Manhattan, New York Metro

Washer repair in SoHo.

Most of SoHo's cast-iron facades went up between 1840 and 1880.

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What SoHo does
to a washer.

The Haughwout Building at Broadway and Broome Street, built in 1856 and 1857, carries a cast-iron facade.

As the district declined, some of its buildings became warehouses and printing plants, and others were torn down for gas stations, repair shops and parking.

A canal was once cut to drain a pond here into the Hudson, and both were later filled in with earth from nearby Bayard's Hill.

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Older housing stock

Houses built long before automatic washers often got one wherever a drain could be found, and the standpipe, trap and supply valves may be far older than the machine. A washer that drains slowly or gurgles is sometimes reporting on the house's drain rather than on itself.

Tower living

A washer in a tower stands above somebody else's ceiling, so a burst hose or a clogged drain is a problem for two households at once. Many buildings require a drain pan, braided supply hoses and shutoff valves within reach of the laundry closet before they will approve the machine at all.

Small homes

Small homes put the washer wherever the plumbing reaches: a hall closet, a stacked pair beside the kitchen or a 24-inch compact under a counter. The drain often goes into a sink or a short standpipe, and a hose pushed too far down can siphon water out of the drum mid-cycle.