NEW YORK — An iconic family-owned Jewish appetizing shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is opening a second retail location in Brooklyn.
Russ & Daughters, which has sold smoked fish and other Ashkenazi favorites from a small Houston Street shop since 1920, is opening a 14,000-square-foot (1,300-square-meter) store in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Bedford & Bowery blog reported Monday.
In addition to the planned new retail location, which is expected to add 30 jobs and a new bakery, Russ & Daughters in 2014 opened a cafe on the Lower East Side and will be opening a second one in The Jewish Museum. The shop’s former owner, Mark Russ Federman, published a cookbook in 2013 called “Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House that Herring Built.”
The new store will be part of a new 60,000-square-foot food hall in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Building 77, which is undergoing an $80 million renovation, according to Bedford & Bowery.
Russ & Daughters’ expansion to Brooklyn comes a year after another iconic Lower East Side Jewish food establishment, Streit’s Matzo Factory, sold its building in the gentrified neighborhood and moved operations to New Jersey.
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It is not clear whether Russ & Daughters’ new location will supplement or ultimately replace the Lower East Side shop.
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