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Every Person in New York

September 26th, 2009 · 10:06 am

People at Russ and Daughters on Houston Street August 30, 3009. By Jason Polan. From the series “Every Person In New York.”
It seems like every person in New York is at Russ & Daughters this weekend, picking up orders and watching as salmon is sliced at the counter. The shop is open from 9:00 a.m. [...]

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Category: Around Town · Friends & Neighbors · In Line · In the Store · Out and About · Visitors · While You Wait · storefront
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After Almost 100 Years, It Was Time for a Twitter

June 10th, 2009 · 11:30 am

After almost 100 years, it was time for a Twitter. Follow us at http://twitter.com/LoxPopuli
Twitter has been great so far. We love hearing from Russ & Daughters fans and Lox Populi readers all over the world.  Note the exchange we had recently with swell website Foursquare (a site that encourages you to explore your city and [...]

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Category: Friends & Neighbors · In Line · In the Store · R&D To Do List · The Small Screen · Visitors · While You Wait · customers
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Marco Pierre White’s Favorite Lunch Spot: The Russ & Daughters Counter

March 11th, 2009 · 3:50 pm

There was lots of buzz in the papers and on the blogs today about Chef Marco Pierre White. The Chopping Block, his new reality show, premieres tonight on NBC.  About halfway into Carla Spartos’s article, “Chop Chef,” in the New York Post is this gem: “No wonder White counts Russ & Daughters as his favorite [...]

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Category: In Line · In the Store · The Small Screen · customers
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Oprah’s Best Life and Her Writer’s Not-So-Perfect Day

January 14th, 2009 · 1:22 pm

In the January issue of O - The Oprah Magazine, columnist Lisa Kogan tells of her perfect day that starts at Russ & Daughters, leads to some curious words from another customer while waiting in line at the counter, and ends with a resolution to either “breathe in and let go” or, if none of [...]

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Category: In Line · In the Store · Press
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A Long Line? Woman Waits Since 1936.

December 30th, 2008 · 12:46 pm

Rose Zirolnik waited a long time. From 1936 until now, in fact.
When she was a student nurse at Bellevue Hospital in the 1930s,  Rose often took orders from her program’s doctors and residents and then picked everything up at Russ & Daughters — in an ambulance! — on her way back from emergency calls.  Before [...]

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Category: History · In Line · In the Store · customers

Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen

November 24th, 2008 · 6:13 pm

As another holiday approaches, it seems the perfect time to share with you a great moment from this fall’s High Holidays.  The Russ & Daughters erev Yom Kippur line is legendary.  Throughout that day, each year, a crowd gathers, numbers are clutched, stories and recipes are swapped, friendships and shidduchs are made, and this past [...]

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Category: Holidays · In Line · In the Store · Tradition · Video · While You Wait
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Welcome

November 10th, 2008 · 7:00 am

Welcome to Lox Populi, the place to head for daily updates about all things related to Russ & Daughters: bits of history, tastes of new treats, recipes, customer stories, traditions, anecdotes, kvetching, and kvelling.
But we can’t do it without the lox and we can’t do it without the people. So, please send us your stories [...]

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