7/14/2023 0 Comments Greenwich letterpress![]() PRODUCT SUBMISSIONS If you are a designer and interested in having your products sold at Greenwich Letterpress please email: and attach a catalog or link to your website/products. Beth’s Favorites: faux food, mini objects, giant objects, Taylor Ham & egg sandwiches, Pretzels the cat, pretzels the food, BH90210, Googling “sprinkles,” teen angst in movies & TV, Christmas decorations, Autumn, making something out of nothing at all… Amy’s Favorites: Pugs, Italian Subs, imitating the smell of a fireplace, Cape May (NJ), coffee, old Tumblr pages, martinis (olives! twists are for maniacs), Christmas Lights Up All Year, the movie Hackers, Iceland, taking photos with a camera (I’m old), Britpop… In the New York City? Stop by the shop and talk paper and pop-culture with us. All of our paper is either made from 100% tree-free post-consumer cotton or produced with a minimal ecological footprint. Launching our first designs of enamel lapel pins in 2009-when jean jackets were just denim-we’re excited to see how far they have come! Greenwich Letterpress is not only interested in creating and producing paper goodness and lust-worthy gifts, we also care about the environment. In addition, we offer our own collection of neighborhood key tags (fictional and NYC neighborhoods) and distinctive enamel pins. Now celebrating over 17 years of a women owned business! We specialize in custom letterpress weddings, announcements/invitations, and stationery, we also offer a uniquely curated shop of letterpress greeting cards, letter sets, notebooks, and gifts-featuring our own line and others just as distinct. Any amount you can contribute is greatly and sincerely appreciated.As sisters, New Jerseyans, and third-generation printers, we-Amy Salvini Swanson and Beth Salvini-quit our day jobs and opened the doors of Greenwich Letterpress in early 2005 bringing wit and pop-culture wisdom to the heart of New York City’s West Village. ![]() Our ability to stay in business means that we can continue to support our small independent vendors, provide jobs, and be that welcoming neighborhood place you can still count on. We simply want the chance to stay in business long enough to ride out this storm into 2021, when, hopefully, we will see a vaccine and an adaptation to a “new” normal. The money we are asking for will temporarily help us cover our overhead and allow us to hire employees back. ![]() We rely heavily on foot traffic, and with tourism on hold and many of our customers temporarily or permanently leaving the city, we see an uncertain road ahead. We are reopening our doors on Saturday, August 22nd, and while we remain hopeful, we fear that the months lost to lockdown will be too much for us to come back from. Once we realized in midsummer that the city was going to remain shuttered for longer than we had anticipated, we had to let our small staff go. Since March, we have paid our rent, and up until June, we kept all of our employees on our payroll. We don’t want to be another small-business casualty. Today, almost six months after Covid-19 swept through our country and the world, we find ourselves in the humbled position of asking for your help. Without small business, what would this city be?Įven before Covid-19 hit and temporarily shut us down in mid-March, our neighborhood had already been suffering from years of so-called high-rent blight, in which Mom & Pops were driven out of business by jacked-up rents, and formely vibrant storefronts stood empty and dormant. Being a small business in NYC is tough to begin with. ![]() When we opened our store on Christopher Street, fifteen years ago, our goal was to be like one of those shops: a throwback to the days when Mom & Pops ruled and every store was your little “shop around the corner.” To us, what makes New York City so amazing is the variety of independent businesses that color its landscape. We grew up in New Jersey, and on weekends we loved to come into the city and walk around the Village and admire the small boutiques and eccentric shops that lined the streets. Hi! We are Beth Salvini & Amy Swanson-sisters, third-generation letterpress printers, and the owners of Greenwich Letterpress in the West Village.
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