Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

When John Jobbagy’s grandfather immigrated from Budapest in Hungary to the United States in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers called the Meatpacking District. Jobbagy and the other tenants in the district’s last meat market have accepted … Read more