Sloane Crosley started off a new web Op-Ed column (“Townies, a series about life in New York written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there, appears every Thursday. October’s columnist is Sloane Crosley, the author of How Did You Get This Number.”) on The New York Times‘ “Opinionator” page with “New York Is [...]

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In The New York Times article “Herring Return to the City, With Sex In Mind“  Joseph Berger writes, “Herring have found their way back to the Bronx — bound not for fish lovers’ plates, but for a clean, cool place to deposit the next generation.” Berger reports on the work of New York City parks [...]

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The New York Times visited a few of the city’s remaining neon sign makers in the wake of many businesses today turning instead to LED or back-lit plastic. The Times ran a great photo, of the Russ & Daughters’ sign and storefront. See it above. In the article, Christopher Gray writes, “The sign for the [...]

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Serious Eats might be trying to start some trouble. While shopping at Russ & Daughters, recently, they seemed shocked to find out that Niki Russ Federman just isn’t into Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda. I love Cel-Ray (I even miss the now-discontinued and less sweet Diet version), so I wasn’t happy to hear that Niki is [...]

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Witnessing the astonishing rate at which small, independent businesses were (and are) disappearing in New York, was one of my primary motivations for returning to my family business and helping to make sure that Russ & Daughters continues. For Virginie Alvine Perette, a lawyer turned filmmaker, it was the motivation to make a film. I [...]

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