tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post1246641082709931006..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Celebrating Streit'sJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-15065248680233641292016-04-11T19:17:32.720-04:002016-04-11T19:17:32.720-04:00But sadly, this is all too possible.
http://park...But sadly, this is all too possible. <br />http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/business/hey-bubbelehs-the-new-matzo-project-will-drive-you-meshugga/<br />The artisanal Gowanus "Matzo Project" & hey, they'll be collaborating with the Gowanus Ample Hills* ice cream co. for Milk & Honey Matzoh Ice Cream! And hey, Ample Hills will have an outpost at Disney World soon!!!<br />onemorefoldedsunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05995652957356064546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-80594699248501543062016-04-11T16:18:36.567-04:002016-04-11T16:18:36.567-04:00It was a real living thing in the city. Accessibl...It was a real living thing in the city. Accessible. Now, a ghost where the condos are now.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018698439789288968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-31127086926995765822016-04-11T16:04:03.452-04:002016-04-11T16:04:03.452-04:00"Streit's Matzo my friends, for the unlea..."Streit's Matzo my friends, for the unleavened experience of a lifetime", as Billy Crystal would say in his Joe Franklin guise on S.N.L. Streit's used to give me the confidence that New York was still just that, and the Old Jewish Quarter still held mystery. I guess the automobile and the highway meant that prime space would be something very different decades after they were developed. The loss of all this character may be unstoppable. Who eventually tears up a million dollar check? I've never done it once. We still have the right to remember what we had, just the same. It seems nodoby is trying to erase Streit's from that continuum.<br /><br />I recall a great aunt of mine who came through Ellis Island in 1903, chiding me for pining for the antique ways. She remembered the family house in Dayton, Ohio which she had to clean. Parlour, living room, dining room, bedrooms, porch, basement - all the spaces, and she wondered aloud who would want to have to clean floor boards like that now. I never forgot her message that there was nothing at all wrong with now and not having to get splinters from the floor.<br /><br />The Matzo (or matzoh) bakers who were alive when the plant was new are long dead. Perhaps we should be grateful that they came and produced at all. Even so, there would be no Yiddish theater for them to go to anyway now, after work.<br /><br />This time, I must say "sad" though, as it is actually a death. And yet the name and family continue to remind us. Here's to those who came here before.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15565030682360603009noreply@blogger.com