Guss' Pickles plans to relocate from 87 Orchard Street to Brooklyn, according to a report today at www.thelodownny.com.
The small store has sold pickles out of barrels on the sidewalk on the Lower East Side since 1920 and is one of best known though quite small stores in the neighborhood.
In an item entitled "Fall of the Lower East Side," Joey at Curbed.com wrote today that "Through all the Lower East Side's changes over the years - the boutique hotels, the rowdy bars, the BLUEs, etc. - the culinary pillars of the neighborhood's Jewish heritage have largely remained: Katz's, Yonah Schimmel, Russ & Daughters and Guss' Pickles (Kossar's Bialys, at 73 years old, is a relative spring chicken). Alas, the temple is crumbling."
"A call to Guss' confirms the move, to the South Brooklyn nether regions of 39th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues 'in a few months,'" according to the Curbed item.
The story at thelodownny.com indicated that the owner of the store, Patricia Fairhurst, said she is "running out of room and can't afford rent for a bigger space in the neighborhood since it's changed so much. When the city put a Muni Meter directly in front of her pickle barrels, blocking customers' access, it was the last straw."
There is another pickle emporium on the Lower East Side that is known as The Pickle Guys and it is on Essex Street, but Darrell Hanley left a comment to the Curbed item that "Although a sad day for the L.E.S. - fans of Guss' Pickles do not have to travel to BK - Chelsea Market (16th and 9th) has 'em."
The small store has sold pickles out of barrels on the sidewalk on the Lower East Side since 1920 and is one of best known though quite small stores in the neighborhood.
In an item entitled "Fall of the Lower East Side," Joey at Curbed.com wrote today that "Through all the Lower East Side's changes over the years - the boutique hotels, the rowdy bars, the BLUEs, etc. - the culinary pillars of the neighborhood's Jewish heritage have largely remained: Katz's, Yonah Schimmel, Russ & Daughters and Guss' Pickles (Kossar's Bialys, at 73 years old, is a relative spring chicken). Alas, the temple is crumbling."
"A call to Guss' confirms the move, to the South Brooklyn nether regions of 39th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues 'in a few months,'" according to the Curbed item.
The story at thelodownny.com indicated that the owner of the store, Patricia Fairhurst, said she is "running out of room and can't afford rent for a bigger space in the neighborhood since it's changed so much. When the city put a Muni Meter directly in front of her pickle barrels, blocking customers' access, it was the last straw."
There is another pickle emporium on the Lower East Side that is known as The Pickle Guys and it is on Essex Street, but Darrell Hanley left a comment to the Curbed item that "Although a sad day for the L.E.S. - fans of Guss' Pickles do not have to travel to BK - Chelsea Market (16th and 9th) has 'em."
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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