Can anyone help me get a listing of all “butcher shops below the Brooklyn Bridge” c. 1915?

 

This is to help me ultimately find out who my maternal grandfather was - as well as learning more about my maternal grandmother. I have DNA-based reasons to believe they were both 100% Jewish. 

 

Here’s the short version of the story: I believe my maternal grandmother’s father disowned her about the time she (probably unmarried) gave birth to my mother, 1915. I believe he - or possibly someone from my maternal grandfather’s family, had “a butcher shop below the Brooklyn Bridge.”  

 

I’m hopeful that a listing of butcher shops below the Brooklyn Bridge would reveal surnames that might help me. Currently, I have three candidate surnames: Ruderman, Fein, and Gross. A butcher shop name containing any of those names would provide a very promising resumption of my research. 

 

Thank you for your support.

 

Richard A. Di Lorenzo

Naples, FL and Beavercreek, OH

 

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Do you think "below" the bridge means literally on the street underneath it, or the more general meaning of "below", that is, anywhere south of it?

I have no butchers for you either way, but for those that do, this might narrow it down?
 
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Robert Roth
Kingston, NY
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Try e-mailing the NY Public Library. Click on  "Ask A Librarian".  The information you need may be in their City Directories.

:Linda Gordon Higgins
Spring, TX.