Photography and video from our visit to Schmidt's Candy for @6sqft...

Full article: https://www.6sqft.com/behind-the-scenes-at-woodhaven-chocolate-maker-schmidts-candy/

Full video: https://youtu.be/2mTmP_00V9o

"We may not be able to gather together for Easter this year, but we can certainly still place a chocolate order to lift our spirits. And if the Easter Bunny is choosing where to get the best homemade chocolates and candies to fill his basket, Schmidt’s Candy in Woodhaven, Queens would certainly be a top choice. German immigrant Frank Schmidt founded this nearly-century old confectionery shop in 1925. We recently had a chance to tour this iconic shop with Margie Schmidt, Frank’s granddaughter and the third-generation owner. Margie continues to make specialty holiday chocolates and candies by hand using the same recipes that were handed down to her by her father. Ahead, go behind the scenes to see how all these tasty treats are made, tour the historic interior, and learn about the shop’s history from Margie."

We walk the empty ghost town like streets of Manhattan's East Village during the #NYC State of Emergency with our rescue dog, Hudson.

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Filmed on Saturday March 28, 2020 at around 11:00 PM

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We walk the empty ghost town like streets of Manhattan's East Village during the #NYC State of Emergency with our rescue dog, Hudson.

Filmed on Saturday March 28, 2020 at around 11:00 PM #NewYork #eastvillage

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In our BEST ITALIAN NEW YORK CAKE & COOKIES video we visit a 125 + year-old Italian cake & pastry shop in New York City during the STATE OF EMERGENCY.

We see how empty the #NYC streets are during the pandemic as we highlight the amazing homemade #Italian cheesecake, cookies, pastries this East Village family-owned small business sells and watch as the fourth-generation owner speaks with us about the difficult times his Pasticceria is facing despite having survived the Pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression and World Wars.

We also try the #best cannoli, fruit tarts, Italian cheesecake and pizza rustica this shop sells and speak about its vintage neon sign. 

Many small shops have recently shuttered in New York City, but the ones that are still open, need our help so we will keep championing them as long as it is responsible to do so.

We are taking precautions while going outside and trying to maintain social distancing. We want to remain positive and help our fellow New Yorkers in this time of need and keep celebrating the contribution small often family-owned businesses make to our community. 

WE VISIT: Veniero's Pasticcerria & Cafe: 342 East 11th Street East Village, New York   We try their delicious homemade Italian cheesecake, cannoli, fruit tarts, lobster tail pastry, pizza rustica and puff pastries. 

To order their homemade cheesecakes, cookies & pastries on line visit: https://venierospastry.com 

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'American dream' by artist @jofre.oliverasis painted on an abandoned building in Miami, Florida.

According to a statement from the artist, the subject of this mural was an actual homeless person from Miami. #miami #streetart #streetartist #homeless

East Village Pizza 🍕on First Avenue at East 9th Street is featured in our latest YouTube video: EAST VILLAGE PIZZA NEW YORK: During STATE OF EMERGENCY.

Full video: https://youtu.be/-xu8EQMb_BU

We visit @eastvillagepizza and speak with the owner Frank just as the health restrictions limiting restaurants to take away and delivery were being instituted.

• To hear Frank speak about how he got started in the pizza business and watch as their delicious pizza is being made and to see our rescue dog Hudson get some pepperoni 🍕from the take away window please watch our latest YouTube video.

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In our East Village Pizza NEW YORK: During STATE OF EMERGENCY video we visit an amazing pizzeria during the health crisis in #NYC to help support this unique family-owned shop.

We not only see how empty the streets are in this usually very busy neighborhood, but we speak with the owner, Frank about the inventive #pizza he has created. We have a slice of their delicious Margherita Pizza and Pepperoni Pizza and try some cheesy garlic knots before bringing the rest home with us to eat with our dog Hudson, as take away or ordering your delivery online is safer and faster.

Many small shops have recently shuttered including in our own neighborhood of the East Village and since street food spots need our help, we will keep championing them as long as it is responsible to do so. We are taking precautions while going outside and trying to maintain social distancing.

We want to remain positive and help our fellow New Yorkers in this time of need and keep celebrating the contribution small often family-owned businesses make to our community.

WE VISIT: East Village Pizza: 145 First Avenue East Village, New York

We try their delicious Margherita Pizza, Pepperoni Pizza and Cheesy Garlic Knots  Follow East Village Pizza on Instagram East Village Pizza @eastvillagepizza

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In our latest YouTube video, BEST NYC CHOCOLATE & CANDY we visit Schmidt's Confectionery!

In our latest YouTube video, BEST NYC CHOCOLATE & CANDY we visit Schmidt's Confectionery and watch as the 3rd-generation owner makes Easter chocolates 🐇using cast iron molds from the 1920s and also makes #homemade chocolate candies. 

Full video: https://youtu.be/wYOHUQD2LPE 

Schmidt’s Candy is a family-owned shop which has been in busIness for almost a century!  To help support small businesses during this health emergency pandemic, we are highlighting one of the BEST NYC CHOCOLATE & CANDY shops in New York City! This #candy shop is struggling to stay afloat as Easter 🐣 is usually one of their busiest times of year but very few people are now on the streets and this shop has always relied on foot traffic.

• Please help support your local small business and Schmidt’s Candy by ordering from their website!

• To see the original interior of this lovely shop and all of their delicious chocolates and candies made using NO preservatives, please watch our latest YouTube video.

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In our latest BEST NYC CHOCOLATE & CANDY video we visit a nearly century-old #vintage candy & chocolate shop in New York City during the STATE OF EMERGENCY.

Full video: https://youtu.be/wYOHUQD2LPE 

We see how empty the #NYC subway and streets are during the pandemic as we travel to Queens to showcase the amazing #homemade chocolate this family-owned small business sells and watch as the third-generation owner shows us #howto make an Easter chocolate bunny using a cast iron mold from the 1920s.

We also watch as the owner makes homemade chocolate candies including dark chocolate non-pareils and pecan delights. 

Many small shops have recently shuttered in New York City, but the ones that are still open including Schmidt's Candy, need our help so we will keep championing them as long as it is responsible to do so. We are taking precautions while going outside and trying to maintain social distancing. We want to remain positive and help our fellow New Yorkers in this time of need and keep celebrating the contribution small often family-owned businesses make to our community. 

WE VISIT: Schmidt's Candy: 9415 Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens New York We try their delicious homemade dark chocolate non-pareils. 

To order their homemade chocolates and candies on line visit: https://schmidtscandy.com 

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In New York City as of tonight, Sunday March 22nd, all non-essential businesses will be closed until further notice to help stop the spread of the virus pandemic.

This does not include bicycle shops as this is a means of transportation that is an important alternative to those who absolutely need to get to work (such as health care workers) and can’t take public transportation or want to avoid unnecessary contact with others. We hope all of our friends and followers are staying safe in these difficult times.

Sauce Pizzeria in the East Village, NYC

Not only does Sauce Pizzeria in the East Village make a great slice of pizza 🍕 including a side of dipping sauce (see sauce in photo) but during this pandemic health emergency, we thank them for donating free pizza to local hospital workers who are working overtime battling the #coronaviruspandemic and the public can also help by contacting Sauce Pizzeria and donating a pie in their name and Sauce will also match that donation with an additional pie!

• We visited this fantastic pizza shop last week before the restrictions limiting restaurants to takeout and delivery went into effect and had a classic cheese slice 🍕with their Grandma’s Gravy as our dipping sauce. 

Full video: https://youtu.be/AuKL1H7Hk5g

• To see the interior of @saucepizzerianyc which was designed by the owner @adamelzer and watch as their amazing Grandma’s gravy is being made 🥫please watch our latest YouTube video: BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE.

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Yesterday was the first day of Spring 2020!

Olympia Florist in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. We love its vintage neon sign and the beautiful plants 🌱 and flowers 🌸 they sell.

Please try and support your local small business (florists deliver!) as they really need all the help they can get during this difficult time.

Happy Spring 🌺everyone and stay safe!

To help support small food businesses during this health emergency pandemic, we are highlighting one of the BEST NEW NYC PIZZA places in New York City, Philomena’s Artisan Pizza 🍕

To help support small food businesses during this health emergency pandemic, we are highlighting one of the BEST NEW NYC PIZZA places in New York City, which has remained largely undiscovered, Philomena’s Artisan Pizza 🍕.

Full video: https://youtu.be/cE61TivnrqU

In our latest YouTube video, BEST NEW NYC PIZZA: UNDISCOVERED STREET FOOD TOUR QUEENS we visit @philomenasqueens and watch as two types of pizza are being made by the owner, Dave Acocella. We absolutely loved the square #pizza we had and Dave also makes an absolutely delicious 😋 round pie.

• Please note that we visited this #pizzeria while it was still fully open for sit-down dining last Friday, before the City-wide restrictions went into place and it is NOW only open for take-out and delivery.

• Please help support your local #nycpizza spot and order takeaway or have a slice or pie delivered!

• To see more of the BEST pizzas 🍕 Philomena’s specializes in and to watch them being made including a peak at Dave’s 72 hour natural starter #lievietomadre , please watch our latest YouTube video!

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Our video BEST NEW NYC PIZZA: Undiscovered STREET FOOD Tour QUEENS is now live on our YouTube channel!

In our BEST NEW NYC PIZZA: UNDISCOVERED STREET FOOD TOUR QUEENS we visit a new best undiscovered #pizza spot and watch as two types of pizza are being made by the owner in this #streetfood pizza tour. We visit this undiscovered pizzeria during the #NYC (and worldwide) health emergency pandemic to help support small businesses which are now only open for take-out and delivery. NOTE that we visited before these restrictions were put in place.

We visit and try pizza at: Philomena's Artisan Pizza: 41-16 Queens Blvd Sunnyside, Queens New York -Classic Square
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Luzzo’s in the East Village specializes in coal-oven pizza 🍕 and is located in the former home of an Italian bread bakery

Full video: https://youtu.be/AuKL1H7Hk5g 

We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village.

One place we visit in our latest YouTube BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR is Luzzo's Pizzeria’s Ristorante Italiano on First Avenue. We visit the must hit #pizza spots in this vibrant #NYC neighborhood and watch as pizza is being made with our insider #food access tour.

• To see the interior of @pizzabyluzzos (their 120 year-old coal-fired oven and the 12 inch Margherita pizza we had) and watch as their amazing Margherita pizza is being made 🍕 please watch our latest YouTube video: BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE (direct link in bio & Instagram story).

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Mohammed, over at Lions & Tigers & Squares Detroit Pizza in the East Village...

Our video BEST PIZZA #NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE is now live on our YouTube channel!

We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village.

Full video: https://youtu.be/AuKL1H7Hk5g 

In our BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE we visit the must hit #pizza spots in this vibrant #NYC neighborhood and watch as pizza is being made with our insider #food access tour. We visit the best pizzerias during the City (and worldwide) health emergency to help support small businesses in our own neighborhood. 

We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village. We visit these pizzerias during the City (and worldwide) health emergency to help support small businesses in our own neighborhood. 

We will be posting new videos weekly, highlighting small unique businesses in NYC. 

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Our video BEST PIZZA #NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE is now live on our YouTube channel!

We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village.

Full video: https://youtu.be/AuKL1H7Hk5g 

In our BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE we visit the must hit #pizza spots in this vibrant #NYC neighborhood and watch as pizza is being made with our insider #food access tour. We visit the best pizzerias during the City (and worldwide) health emergency to help support small businesses in our own neighborhood.  We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village. We visit these pizzerias during the City (and worldwide) health emergency to help support small businesses in our own neighborhood. 

We will be posting new videos weekly, highlighting small unique businesses in NYC. 

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Our video BEST PIZZA #NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE is now live on our YouTube channel!

In our BEST PIZZA NYC: STREET FOOD TOUR EAST VILLAGE we visit the must hit #pizza spots in this vibrant #NYC neighborhood and watch as pizza is being made with our insider #food access tour.

We visit the best pizzerias during the City (and worldwide) health emergency to help support small businesses in our own neighborhood.  We are trying to do our part during this health crisis by supporting local small businesses in our own neighborhood of the East Village.

We will be posting new videos weekly, highlighting small unique businesses in NYC.

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We were thinking about things that people (and kids) can do who are stuck at home and working on a scale model is definitely a fun activity.

When we took this HOBBY SHOP photo in 2010 for our book, “Store Front II- A History Preserved” we interviewed the manager who told us that the owner built model planes ✈️ and cars 🚗 as a hobby before opening the store but that they “now specialize in radio control cars and sell parts and do repairs but we have a full line of other hobby items too. Many of our customers have been coming here for years and often now even bring their grandchildren in with them.” We not only loved hearing about the history of the shop but also fell in love with this #hobbyshop original #signage with its model train 🚂 and plane.

Russ & Daughters Cafe was opened in 2014 on the 100th anniversary of the original appetizing shop.

This lovely café is featured in our BEST JEWISH FOOD NYC YouTube video.

Full video: https://youtu.be/-nrlfxlQbAg

The 4th-generation owners of Russ & Daughters, Niki Russ Federman and Joshua Russ Tupper, opened the café as a way to give customers who had patiently waited in line at the store a place to sit down and enjoy all of their specialties including smoked salmon and bagel 🥯 boards, and herring, caviar and egg dishes. •
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To see the interior of the café
@russanddaughters and some of the delicious dishes they serve including their Eggs Benny, Borscht, and Classic Bagel Board with Gaspe Nova Smoked Salmon 🐟, Cream Cheese, Tomato, Onion and Capers, and to see the delicious babka ice cream sandwich we had, please subscribe to our channel . We will be posting new videos weekly, highlighting small unique businesses in NYC.

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Our video BEST JEWISH FOOD TOUR #NYC is now live on our YouTube channel!

In this BEST JEWISH FOOD TOUR #NYC, we visit two family-owned #Jewish food businesses which are co-owned by women on International Women's Day and try some amazingly delicious #food from each Lower East Side, NYC spot.
br /> We also watch again (as we visited this spot in 2019) the step-by-step process of the perfect bagel, smoked salmon, cream cheese, tomato and onion sandwich being lovingly created by Herman Vargas, the long-time manager at Russ & Daughters Appetizers (who recently retired).

Places we visit include:
1. Russ & Daughters Appetizers 179 East Houston Street Lower East Side, NYC
2. Russ & Daughters Cafe 127 Orchard Street Lower East Side, NYC

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Louie’s Pizza 🍕in the Bronx

We always stop by local neighborhood pizzerias and try a slice when exploring different neighborhoods. This Schuylerville family-owned pizza shop was founded in 1979 and not only served pizza but also specialized in calzones.

Let us know what your favorite neighborhood #pizza spot is!

From our YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video!

From our YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video, where we see hundreds of graffiti and street art murals in this Miami neighborhood which has more graffiti and street art than anywhere else in the U.S.

•Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A

#graffiti #miamigraffiti

From our YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video!

From our YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video, where we see hundreds of graffiti and street art murals in this Miami neighborhood which has more graffiti and street art than anywhere else in the U.S.

•Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A

#graffiti #miamigraffiti

We visit and get some bites with Renda Writer a local handwritten artist as he spray paints a "LOVE" mural in Wynwood.

Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A 

In this WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI tour we visit the vibrant neighborhood of #Wynwood, which has more graffiti and street #art than anywhere else in the United States. We check out many of its amazing Miami graffiti and street art murals, eat at a world-renowned kosher bakery and a Mediterranean cafe and also visit a long-standing mom-and-pop clothing business that has withstood the pressures of gentrification in this #Miami neighborhood.

#miami #graffiti #miamigraffiti #food #foodtour

One of the walls we feature in our latest YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video

We see hundreds of graffiti and street art murals in this Miami neighborhood which has more graffiti and street art than anywhere else in the U.S.

•Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A #graffiti #miamigraffiti

The Unicorn 🦄 Factory in Wynwood, Miami.

Although this facade with its colorful painted unicorns & other whimsical characters 🌻 caught our eye, we couldn’t bear to pay $38 per person to take selfies inside this unicorn-filled pop-up. We pass by this shop in our latest YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video, and see hundreds of graffiti and street art murals in this Miami neighborhood which has more graffiti and street art than anywhere else in the U.S. 

•Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A 


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#popyacolour #popyacolour_repetition_club #unicorn #unicornparty #graffiti #graff #wynwood #miami #wynwoodartdistrict #graffitiart #storefront #wynwoodart #streetphotography #street #streetartglobe #streetartist #streetartporn #streetartofficial #streetartphoto

The Boombox (version 6) in Wynwood was painted by local Miami graffiti artist Trek 6 in collaboration with Ishmael.

We visited this huge boombox mural in our YouTube WYNWOOD MIAMI STREET ART, FOOD & GRAFFITI video.

Full video: https://youtu.be/_bSDgnbEE7A 

Not only do we check out this iconic large-scale mural, which can be seen from Interstate 95, but also see hundreds of other #graffitiart and #streetartists work in this neighborhood which has more graffiti and street art than anywhere else in the U.S.

• To see just how huge this Boombox is and to see all the other work we discovered in the neighborhood including a visit to @wynwoodwallsofficial please watch and subscribe to our JamesandKarla YouTube channel (direct link in bio and Instagram story which also shows the salmon burgers!).

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