Monday, June 25th, 2007...9:44 pm
Gertel’s Last Stand
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Last Friday, Gertel’s Bakery—the most-loved of the Lower East Side’s three remaining kosher bakeries—permanently closed its doors, after 90 years in business. Joanna Smith Rakoff, the editor of Nextbook.org and a longtime consumer of Gertel’s prune danishes, talked to the shop’s final customers about rugelach, “water challah,” and the past and future of a neighborhood in flux. NextBook.org
Joanna Smith Rakoff is the editor of Nextbook.org. Julie Subrin produces the Nextbook podcast.
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