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Remember Saul Zabar…

Austin Tang — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:05:17 +0000

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The Zabar’s Story
90 years, and 4 generations later, Zabar’s family business is still going strong.

Our father and mother, Louis and Lillian Zabar, started the business back in 1934, opening a 22-foot-wide shop along NYC’a Broadway at West 80th Street. Louis was a real stickler for quality, roasting his own coffee, and personally visiting smokehouses to sample and inspect the fish – rejecting far more than he accepted.

The principles and practices of our founder and father continue to guide us: Respect the customer. Never, ever stint on quality. Offer fair value. And last but not least, keep searching for the new and wonderful.

Without question, this last point has accounted for some memorable moments. Back in the 1960’s, we introduced New York to Brie, in the ‘70’s we brought them sun-dried tomatoes and gnocchi, and in the ‘80’s, we got so excited about caviar – and wanted everyone to taste it – that our prices set off a so-called “Caviar War”. (Incidentally, we won.)

Over the years, the business kept growing, and today we span practically the entire block front. With our sons, daughters and their cousins, we’re still at it – hand-slicing meltingly delicious smoked fish behind our deli counter…offering tastes of the latest artisanal cheeses…setting out fresh-baked batches of rugelach (it’s our Bubbe’s recipe)…overseeing the roasting of our special coffee blends (we sell 400,000 pounds a year!) Retire? Not on your life – we’re having too much fun!

As Louis taught us, to succeed as a family business, you have to love each other, and love the business – in our case, great food, great service, great prices, great folks. We ask you, what’s not to love?!

Here’s to another 80 years, and then some! Heartfelt thanks for your patronage.

– Saul & Stanley Zabar

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Oyster Bar Herring Festival “Classic Good News” 04/05/07

Austin Tang — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:44:25 +0000

Aaron Peta of Good News Broadcast gets an inside look at the Oyster Bar’s Herring Festival.

#oyster #bar #herring #festival #aaron #peta #good #news

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MORDANCE in the world premiere of FATS WALLER’S RHYTHM…

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:44:29 +0000

ONE SHOW ONLY
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00PM | AARON DAVIS HALL
General Admission $25 | Senior & Students $15
For more information: www.citycollegecenterforthearts.org or (212)•650•6900
Morgan McEwen has “an eye for shaping the arc of dance as carefully as the transitions and details within it.”
–The New York Times

Fats Waller’s Rhythm, by ballerina turned choreographer Morgan McEwen, takes on the music of legendary Harlem stride pianist and composer, Fats Waller. MorDance, with dancers from some of the world’s most prestigious companies, is joined by bassist/composer Benjamin Gallina and six of New York’s top jazz musicians for an evening of explosive live music and dance.

MORDANCE’s residency at City College Center for the Arts is part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, which receives major support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance. CDI is spearheaded and administered by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College. www.cuny.edu/danceinitiative
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MorDance in
Jeu De Temps
Choreography by Morgan C. McEwen

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Aaron Davis Hall is located on the historic campus of The City College of New York at West 135th Street & Convent Avenue (129 Convent Avenue). For more information please call the Aaron Davis Hall Box Office at 212-650-5362 or visit us online at www.cuny.edu/danceinitiative

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International Jazz Day – Onaje Allan Gumbs. & Friends – “Truth To Power ” concert – Aaron Davis Hall – City College – 4/28/17

admin — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:44:15 +0000

ONAJE ALLAN GUMBS w/special guest Poet/Author/Vocalist/Cultural Activist NANA CAMILLE YARBROUGH & OTHER GREAT JAZZ MUSICIANS CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY

AARON DAVIS HALL – CITY COLLEGE

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017
SHOWTIME: 7 P.M.

“Truth To Power” is a declaration of our Blackness. It is also a declaration of our humanity. Through music, spoken word and song, a dynamic cultural experience will be presented on April 28th at Aaron Davis Hall on the campus of City College at 7PM at Convent Ave and 138th Street in Harlem, NY The evening will include musicians Onaje Allan Gumbs,V. Jeffrey Smith, Marcus Mclaurine, Vince Ector and Gary Fritz; vocalists, Mem Nahadr and Tulivu- Donna Cumberbatch;poets Whitney Asoul Pulliam and Luquan Graham(Luquantumleap Lab). Luquan incidentally who be performing a poem written especially for the evening by Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets entitled “Truth To Power”. Poet, author, vocalist and activist Ms Nana Camille Yarbrough will also be there to bring her incomparable talent to the evening. The first ever Bob Cranshaw Community Achievement Award will be presented to Onaje Allan Gumbs by the Jazz Foundation of America that night. It will truly be an unforgettable evening of celebration through music, poetry and song. Not to be missed.

Ticket info: http://citycollegecenterforthearts.org/tickets/

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Les (Leslie) Wolff, part 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:15:48 +0000

In 1959 I started saving newspapers that had Yankees on the covers, and in 1969 I started a quest to get every major athletes autograph. I started with the NY Jets getting Joe Namath and branched out to getting my idol Mickey Mantle in the Yankee locker room, and trading pictures with his agent Roy True, to Muhammad Ali, who I became friends with and did a TNT SPECIAL with. My Jamaica High School education was highlighted by having my picture in the Daily News getting Mickey Mantle’s autograph as a senior. My 3 idols in sports were Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mantle and Dave DeBusschere. My college education at LaGuardia Community College, in 1973, as part of the 1st graduating class, provided me a scholarship to go on with my schooling at Queens College, where I graduated with Jerry Seinfeld. By befriending major athletes like Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Mickey Mantle, Bill Bradley, Joe Namath, Wayne Gretzky, Joe Frazier, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Joe Dimaggio, and Thurman Munson, it provided me with a great collection. In order to afford my addiction I had to become a dealer and start selling my doubles at an early age in order to help support my parents who were much older and to pay for my college education, clothes, food, housing and transportation etc. Then I branched out and started the first sports auction in the world, in 1986, with Phillips and branched out to start my own company called Sports Auctions of NY. Sports Auctions of NY was around from 1987-92 Before the days of the internet I was appraising, auctioning, buying ,collecting, selling and trading sports memorabilia worldwide. I sold the only known copy of Josh Gibson’s contract, and when Lou Gehrig sued a newspaper for libel because they said ALS was contagious, I sold that document. I also sold a Lou Gehrig contract and check, along with quite a few mint autographed Babe Ruth baseballs. I used to take Dusty Baker, Ralph Garr and Bruce Bochy by train from the hotel to Shea Stadium and I am still friends with Dusty. My work has been with Miami Project, Tuesdays Children, MDA, MS, Make A Wish foundation, Ronald McDonald house, Stand on your feet Foot Locker, Arod’s charity and numerous other charities. We Provide celebrities for these events, whether they are dinners, golf outings, store appearances or corporate events, including simply just having an athlete call a child for an interview etc. I have worked with ESPN/Cox communications traveling the country appraising sports collectibles including authentic game worn jerseys, bats, rings, autographs, golf balls, and books. My business is to cater to the client whether it is a 6 year old child, teaching him how to collect and what to collect, to a Fortune 500 executive on how to preserve his valuable collection and store it. My goal is to try to help everyone I meet and pay it forward. Remember the collectible you save today will make someone smile tomorrow. Collectingly and sportingly yours, Les Les Wolff Worldwide Sports and Entertainment LLC.

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