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A fire took this Greenpoint tailor couple’s apartment. Their 30-year shop above Bagelsmith never closed

A Greenpoint couple who have run Chasing Tailor for 30 years lost their apartment in a fire; the longtime neighborhood business is now seeking community support amid the crisis.

Arthur Arbit kisses Ash on the head as the couple stands beside a rack of clothes in their tailoring studio, both holding travel mugs.
Arthur and Ash of Chasing Tailor, in the photo from the GoFundMe raising money for them after a fire displaced them from their Grand Street apartment. via GoFundMe

A fire took this Greenpoint tailor couple’s apartment. Their 30-year shop above Bagelsmith never closed

A Greenpoint couple who have run Chasing Tailor for 30 years lost their apartment in a fire; the longtime neighborhood business is now seeking community support amid the crisis.

A fire took this Greenpoint tailor couple’s apartment. Their 30-year shop above Bagelsmith never closed

A fire tore through Arthur Arbit and Ash’s apartment in May, and the couple behind Chasing Tailor, Greenpoint’s cult-favorite tailoring shop, never stopped taking appointments. Friends have since started a GoFundMe to help cover housing and lost essentials after the Grand Street fire displaced the pair from their home.

The Arbits told their story to Greenpointers as part of the outlet’s “Greenpoint at Work” interview series, published July 1 and reported by Emma…

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