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This year's New York City International Pickle Day Festival, taking place on October 4, will be a lot more brinier than usual, supplemented with free flowing half-sour tears. The reason? Earlier today, news broke that Lower East Side tenement-era survivors Guss' Pickles will pack up their barrels four months from now and move to Borough Park.
The retail shop has been in business for around 85-90 years, and both Eater and Grub Street noted that Guss' move has little to do with their 2006 lawsuit roundabout with the Cedarhurst, Long Island based pickle business of the same name. Co-owner Roger Janin told Grub Street that business has just tapered off too significantly, even during peak holiday seasons, to make a profit.
Guss' new home will be a lower rent spot on 39th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues, relatively close to the other LES pickle mainstay The Pickle Guys, who last year set up shop on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood (try the horseradish pickles). The Pickle Guys' owner Alan Kauffman once worked for Guss'; for more on the pickle/LES connection, here's a piece from last week's Jewish Daily Forward. It includes a recipe for homemade "kosher" pickles.
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Good for them. I hope they do well in their new location. As far as I'm concerned, the LES deserves to have all their cultural landmarks misplaced. No one had the guts to do anything about it. No community movement, no rent withholding, nothing put a few tired blog making tired complaints. Complaints on blogs may get you site hits and a few small mentions by the mainstream media but I don't see you ebbing the tide of gentrification. Where's the protests? Where's the street action? Guess you guys got old or complacent. Maybe both.
How can we get in touch with the group you've organized to protest the Lower East Side gentrification? Surely, you've done more than make a tired complaint on a blog, right?
Noooooooooo! Poor Gus. :-(
My sentiments exactly :(
Nice going Goyim.
Surely this is bait.
I lived within walking distance of Guss' Pickles for 23 years, moved to Brooklyn 10 years ago, now I can walk there again. I wish them luck in their new location.
What stopped you before?
....and another little bit of old Manhattan disappears :-(
Silver lining: they're staying in business.
LES will never be the same...
Woohoo!
Can't wait for a boutique shop!
thanks for staying in the LES for this long Guss'.
is the Bialys place still there? next to once the Essex theatre?
Close to the The Pickle Guys? Sounds like they went from being a leader to a follower.
My sister always wanted to go there ever since she saw "Crossing Delancey", but never saw the point of hauling ass all the way into the city just for pickles. (Plus she has come to loathe spending any of her money in Manhattan.) Now it'll be in her neighborhood, as she would say, where it truly belongs.