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...

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