The 100-Year Vision of Moscot Eyewear - Forward
There’s an old Yiddish expression my Lower East Side grandmother Ida was fond of: “When luck happens, offer it a seat. I was sitting at OST, a trendy new coffeehouse on my once very untrendy street, when an old Stuyvesant High School classmate walked in wearing hipster glasses. Moss, it turned out, had moved into an apartment one door down from where my grandmother (and babysitter) lived, a block away from me. In my high school there had been unconventional people by the dozens, but eccentric creatives still stood out. After going to NYU film school, he turned to design, bringing drama to celebrity eyewear. Moss truly knew what the Lower East Side was like in the 1970s, back when Abe Beame was mayor, in the days when President Ford told bankrupt New York to, as the New York Daily News put it so gently, “drop dead. Delancey Street was a chancy street to walk down when I was a kid, and horribly smelly too, especially during the infamous garbage strike of 1975. In the ’80s, crack lords ruled the streets. There were no four-star luxury hotels or $14 lobster rolls that would make the old East Side’s kosher grandmothers turn over in their graves. Now, finding a good dairy restaurant with cherry blintzes is as likely as finding a working payphone. Source: forward.com
