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 had [...]

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Illustrator Nate Padavick created a series of 17 portraits of the owners of local independent and family businesses and will exhibit the series, fittingly, at Jeffrey’s Meats in the Essex Street Market (120 Essex Street at Delancey Street).
Padavick made portraits of the “faces” of business owners — Niki Russ Federman of Russ & Daughters, [...]

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