“This Passover holiday marks the end of an era for an iconic matzo factory in New York City. Streit’s has been baking matzo — the unleavened bread that Jews eat during the eight days of Passover — in the same factory on the Lower East Side for 90 years. But the company announced it will move production to a new, modern factory after the holiday. . . ‘It was sort of the last holdout in the neighborhood,’ says Megan Schlow, who has lived on the Lower East Side for 30 years. ‘It was, I guess, sort of inevitable.'” At least they aren’t going out of business, just relocating! Read more here.
