Acme Smoked Fish
26 Gem Street | Greenpoint | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1954
Harry Brownstein and his sons open their own smoked-fish plant at 26 Gem Street
Brownstein, a Russian immigrant, came to Brooklyn in 1905 and distributed smoked fish from local smokehouses to appetizing stores by wagon. In 1954 he and his sons started their own plant, Acme Smoked Fish, in rented space at 26 Gem Street in Greenpoint. He died in 1969, and the business stayed in the family.
Source: star-revue.com
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