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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Tony's Shoe Repair: He Keeps the Shine on the Family Business

By Mitch Broder Tony tries to run his shoe repair with the craftsmanship it had in the thirties, which is commendable since he didn’t run i...

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Mitch Broder: For twenty years, I wrote about New York for the nation's largest newspaper chain. Now I write about New York for the nation's largest Internet. I do this because I love to explore the city and to share what I've found, except when I'm greedy about it and decide to keep it to myself. "Vintage," of course, means old, but it also means timeless. It's my defense for covering new things that evoke old New York spirit. But I mostly cover the best places that take you back in time, whether you are revisiting a time or just now discovering it. On the street I still feel like a tourist, and I tend to look like one, too. These are perhaps my greatest qualifications. Among my others are some of the top prizes in New York City journalism, which nobody really cares about because they're not a Pulitzer.

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