Jeremy Schaller has granted his grandfather’s wish and continues the butcher’s shop.
Bild: HIROKO MASUIKE/The New York Time
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The New Yorkers once called the borough of Yorkville small Germany. Today hardly any people of German origin live there. Their shops, dance halls and cafes have given way to high-rise buildings. Now investors are vying for one of the last institutions.
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JEremy Schaller still remembers how often he and his grandmother went to his family’s butcher’s shop as a child. And how his grandfather urged him to take over the business one day. It was a time when everyone at “Schaller & Weber” spoke German, employees and customers, in the middle of New York. Back then, Yorkville, the area on the Upper East Side where the store is located, was full of German shops and bars. Today Jeremy Schaller is 40 years old, and indeed he has granted Grandpa Ferdinand’s wish. But the area around him has changed dramatically.
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Schaller & Weber and the neighboring restaurant “Heidelberg” are the only businesses that still hold the German flag here. The butcher’s only survived because Schaller’s family owns the two buildings in which it is located. If it were up to the local real estate industry, their days would also be numbered. Schaller regularly receives offers to buy the houses. Someone even offered $ 24 million, four times the market value that is on tax documents.
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