Remembering A. Fitz & Sons butchers on First Avenue, 1987

 

A. Fitz & Sons meat market and Pescatore Seafood were neighbors for many years on First Ave., at the corner of 52nd Street. Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn shopped there.

Midtown butcher, 1987 painting of A. Fitz & Sons, est. 1867
© Barbara Boyd Carter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Butcher David Adams and, on the phone in the back, Selma Schwartz, granddaughter of founder Abraham Fitz. In 1992 the business was sold to Simchick Meats & Poultry, now located at 988 First Ave., bet. 54th/55th streets.

My mother composed her large watercolor and pastel in her Beekman Place apartment from on-site sketches and photos she took for reference. 

In November 2022, the painting came up on #ArtOnLink in Times Square.

This year I posted this painting and others on my apartment door for Thanksgiving.

Contact: Debbie Carter, VillagerExpat@aol.com, (212) 925-3721, and more paintings from her "Midtown Merchants" series at BarbaraBoydCarter.com