Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City

https://signoregalilei.com/2025/12/21/preserved-fish-boss-of-new-york-city/

34•surprisetalk•2w ago

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Proofread0592•2w ago

Glad to see my sense of humor lines up directly with 18th century dock workers

woodruffw•2w ago

> My favorite preserved fish in New York City comes from Russ & Daughters, an icon of New York cuisine that’s been around since 1914.

Russ & Daughters gets their smoked fish from Acme[1], which is a huge purveyor of smoked fish. So the curious from this blog don't necessarily need to schlep to Russ & Daughters to get it.

(Caveat being that it's very hard to slice lox correctly; you should be able to read the newspaper through it[2]. Preserved Fish the human presumably never had to deal with such problems.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Smoked_Fish_Corp.

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/nyregion/the-lox-sherpa-o...

alwa•2w ago

If one happens to be in New York City on a Friday morning, one might even purchase the fish in question straight from the source, as fresh as it gets:

https://acmesmokedfish.com/pages/what-is-fish-friday#:~:text...

masfuerte•2w ago

HN broke link [1]. This works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Smoked_Fish_Corp%2E

I love smoked salmon but in the UK it's mostly farmed trash so I don't buy it any more. If you look hard enough, smoked wild salmon is available, but at ~£1/g it's well out of my price range.

Signore_Galilei•2w ago

OP here - thanks for sharing, didn't know that! I found a source (below) that confirms that Acme is the source of the smoked fish, and claims that Acme works with specific delis to make custom lox for each. So the Russ & Daughters version may still be specific to that shop, even though it's all made at Acme originally (and they do ship nationwide: https://russanddaughters.goldbelly.com/).

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-secret-behin...

Animats•2w ago

Tammany Hall, the building, still stands. Sort of.[1] It hasn't been used for political purposes since the 1970s. It's been through several owners. The entire interior out to the walls was demolished a few years ago, and rebuilt as office space.

Slack was supposed to lease the space, but that fell through. There's now a Petco store on the ground floor. There was a liquor store for a while. Big comedown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44_Union_Square

theLegionWithin•2w ago

that's quite an interesting name!

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