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Shapiro's Kosher Wines
Posted On Wednesday April 25, 2007 By Molly
I lived on the lower east side for many years. Shapiro’s Wine was on Rivington Street just east of Essex Street. I loved their sign. It read “The Wine You Can Cut With A Knife”.
When I moved to Suffolk Street there were no working streetlights and my corner seemed like the heroin trafficking corner of the city. Things changed and for a moment things were great. We had a block association. Trees were planted. There was a block party and kids rode their bikes up and down the block.
But, then things started changing really rapidly. It’s pretty unrecognizeable at this point. I remember the last day the warehouse was open. It was a Sunday. They had the gate open and tables with wine.
This mural, painted in the latter days of Shapiro’s Warehouse, remains.
Tags: east, gentrification, jewish, lower, new, side, wine, york
This Location: Rivington St. and Essex St., New York, NY
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I lived first on Clinton, then on Ludlow St from 1982-90, and remember Schapiro’s very well. On warm days they would have the doors open and you could really smell the intense, grape-y aroma! Schapiro’s was a little island of history in the midst of what was often a scary neighborhood back then. I’m sorry they are gone — and Ratners, too.
— emily xyz Wednesday July 4, 2007 #
that mural was done by chico and myself and we also did the front gate, not sure if you would remember that one.
— Gambino Sunday December 9, 2007 #