Jeffrey's Meats

A short time ago Jeffrey Ruhalter of Jeffrey's Meats told us he's not reopening his shop in the Essex Street Market. Three months ago Ruhalter temporarily closed the store to get his finances in order. His rent was due...

We have an update today on Jeffrey Ruhalter, the Essex Street Market butcher who temporarily closed up shop earlier this month. Yesterday, Jeffrey was in his old space shooting a television pilot, along with LES chef Marja Samsom (formerly...

We just received the following statement from Jeffrey Ruhalter of Jeffrey's Meats in the Essex Street Market: I speak to my/our community. I sent out a press release last week in a last ditch effort for help because I have run...

This morning, there are no signs of any activity at Jeffrey's Meats in the Essex Street Market and the display cases are completely bare. Yesterday, an employee told us it was the store's last day in business.  In the...

Here's the latest on the plight of Jeffrey's Meats, a Lower East Side institution that's fallen on hard times. Last week, news of a 29% rent increase raised new concerns that Jeffrey Ruhalter, a fourth generation butcher, wouldn't be...

Yesterday author Karen Seiger reported on her blog, the Markets of New York, that Essex Street Market butcher Jeffrey Ruhalter was in trouble. According to a press release she received from his publicist, Jeffrey was "running out of options"...

Local butcher Jeffry Ruhalter will be at the Tenement Museum tomorrow evening at 6:30p for a Tenement Talk. Ruhalter, who gave The Lo-Down some excellent Money Saving Tips back in April, will be discussing his fourth-generation family business...