17 Years...

When we took these photos, we had no idea the significance it would have. Remembering those lives lost or destroyed that awful day. We were married at City Hall 09.11.94.

In honor of the two-day holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which began tonight we are highlighting KATZ'S DELICATESSEN, Katz’s was established in 1888

It's famous for its Jewish deli foods including hot pastrami, corned beef sandwiches, as well as hot dogs 🌭, matzoh ball soup and knishes. A ticket is given upon entering the #Delicatessen which serves as a bill that must be handed in when leaving. Every week, Katz’s @katzsdeli serves on average 5,000 pounds of corned beef, 2,000 pounds of salami and 12,000 hot dogs. Happy New Year to everyone who celebrates.

Coney Island Bialys and Bagels in Brooklyn

This bialy shop was founded by Morris Rosenzweig in 1920 after Morris immigrated from Bialystock, Poland...the city that gave the #bialy its name. The business was strictly wholesale at first, delivering their freshly baked bialys by horse 🐎 and buggy. The shop added #bagels to its name and menu in the 1970s. When we photographed the shop in 2009 for our book “Store Front II- A History Preserved” we spoke with the 3rd-generation owner, Steve who told us that in their heyday that they were baking a thousand dozen bialys each day but that business had dwindled in recent years to the point where they only sold a few hundred bialys each day.

Barney Greengrass - The Sturgeon King

Barney Greengrass - The Sturgeon King is a third generation family-owned business, which specializes in smoked fish such as sturgeon, 🐟salmon, and lox as well as caviar. They also have a restaurant serving all of their smoked fish, pickled items, salads, and fresh bagels and breads. Barney Greengrass founded the store in 1908. If you would like to visit this shop in the next few days, be prepared for a long wait as their busiest time of year is around the holiday of Yom Kippur (which is on September 19th this year). When we spoke with the third-generation owner, Gary for our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” he told us that right before Yom Kippur “it’s like a war room in here”.

Coming soon! Photos and interview with our friend Pizza King Paulie Gee over at his new Paulie Gee's Slice Shop, Greenpoint, Brooklyn for 6sqft...

It is delicious!

"This Instagram of Vintage New York Storefronts Is a Nostalgic Fever Dream" SEPT 6, 2018 by ELISE TAYLOR for Vogue

Full article: https://www.vogue.com/article/jamesandkarla-instagram-new-york-city-storefronts

 "It’s true that most of their photos could be lumped into the category of “Old New York”—a designation dwellers use to describe previous iterations of this ever-changing city—but the whole point, James and Karla say, is to remind people that these stores are very much here in the present. “We just try to raise awareness of the joys of these little shops,” James says. “We want people to be aware of how important they are to the fabric of the community. And if they shop there—because that’s the key to the stores success, they need customers—you can actively do something to keep them in business.”

Article includes: @Ray'sCandyStore, @scarrspizza, @Regina'sGrocery and more!

It is with heavy hearts that we are posting our photo of Shopsin’s inside the Essex Street Market in the Lower East Side as we learned that the founder, Kenny Shopsin passed away

Shopsin’s was founded as a general store in 1973 but morphed into a diner as was known for its huge menu including many strange pancake flavors🥞 options including Mac & Cheese pancakes and its infamous customer rules including no tables with more than 4 people dining together and no two people at the same table ordering the same menu item. R.I.P. Kenny Shopsin.