"quart of whiskey"
In the shadow of the scaffolding on the building at 124 First Avenue, just south of St. Mark's Place, is the empty store front that once sold the home baked hams, sausages and ribs that made Kurowycky (pronounced like "quart of whiskey" with an Eastern European accent) Meat an East Village treasure and tradition.
In the week before shutting its doors forever, Jerry Jr., the third Kurowycky to own and run the Ukrainian butcher shop, was putting on a brave front but couldn't help getting teary-eyed when long time customers rushed over to express dismay at the news.
In between condolences from disconsolate customers, Jerry Jr. told me the story of his family's flight from the Nazis and then the Communists, and the prosperity they enjoyed when they arrived in America, in 1949.
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very sad
but I hope he makes a go of an internet business. I'd order from him.
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"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
--William Carlos Williams (from the poem 'From')