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After surviving World War II, Helen and Joseph Laytner moved to New York from Eastern Europe in the 1960s and opened their own shop. They started with a classic candy store on the Upper West Side, which was twelve feet wide by forty feet deep. They sold cigarettes and cigars at the front and had a counter … read more
Alexander, the current owner of Frames For You, came to the United States from former Yugoslavia, where he was a film director. He could not be a film director in the United States “for many reasons,” he explained, but he wanted to find a job related to art in some way. In 1994, Alexander began … read more
“In a family business, everybody works,” Robyn Pocker announced when I first met her. She went on to tell me that her first job as a little girl was making paperclip chains in her family’s framing establishment. Over the years, she was promoted through the ranks, learning to wrap packages with bakery … read more
