45 years and counting event honors our town, east side businesses
| 24 Feb 2016 | 11:07
East side business owners looking over the sketches that appeared in the newspaper last year. Photos by George Cade
Illustrator John S. Winkleman signing copies of his drawings.
From left, Our Town Editor in Chief Kyle Pope, Straus News President Jeanne Straus, and Councilmember Ben Kallos, with a proclamation honoring the newspaper and the businesses being celebrated
Owners of a number of the honored businesses.
The owner of Little Wolf Cabinets, which was among the companies honored in the neighborhood.
From left, Straus News President Jeanne Straus, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and Sen. Liz Krueger
Upper East Siders turned out for a joint celebration last week -- honoring long-standing East Side businesses and celebrating Our Town’s 45th anniversary.
Councilmember Ben Kallos read a city proclamation saluting Our Town and the businesses being honored. For most of 2015, the newspaper profiled businesses that have been open at least as long as the newspaper,
Those businesses were applauded at the Mt. Sinai event, and each of them received a copy of the illustration by John S. Winkleman that accompanied their profiles in the paper.
In addition to Kallos, honorees were also toasted by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and state Sen. Liz Krueger.