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Video: A Last Look Inside the Guss' Pickles Barrel
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 28, 2010
Modified Mar 28, 2010
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Last summer news broke that Lower East Side tenement-era survivors Guss' Pickles would pack up their barrels and move to Borough Park; after almost 90 years in the neighborhood, they could no longer make a profit. Last week they finally abandoned their Orchard Street stall, changed the name to Ess-a-Pickle, and relocated to Brooklyn, on 39th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues. But before they left, The Brooklyn Ink shot this mouth-watering video, narrated by co-owner Patricia Fairhurst, whom we instantly adore for her declaration, "We don't get carried away with the spices—except garlic, we love garlic. Garlic makes everything wonderful!" Patricia, we'd follow you anywhere!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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