Ewa’s Atelier
M-F 10am-6pm; Sa 9am-4pm
I spotted the sign from across the street: a brown banner with a white pair of scissors drawn onto it. Intrigued, I entered the building, climbed up a flight of stairs, and found myself in a small room with a workstation set up with sewing machines. Ewa, the owner of this tiny tailor shop, is a delightful Polish woman who moved to New York when she was twenty-one. Watching Ewa work is a joy; she is a flurry of motion, asks detailed questions, and listens carefully to her client’s responses. She explained that she learned to sew from her grandmother, a seamstress whose sewing machine Ewa still keeps in the corner of her store. “I spent a lot of my childhood in her atelier,” Ewa recounted, “and I made my first dress when I was six years old.” Ewa’s distinguished clientele includes CNN, CBS and members of the staff at Cosmopolitan Magazine, a testament to her talent.
After more than two years of walking the side streets of Manhattan, my friends constantly ask me for recommendations of where to go for particular services. Ewas’s Atelier is a tailor store that I would recommend wholeheartedly.