Located in a non-descript industrial building in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn lies Greenfield Custom Clothiers, the last custom suit maker of its kind in the United States. On the second floor of the three-story building workers craft hand-tailored menswear, piece by piece, for an impressive client list that includes, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and hit television shows and films like The Black List, Gotham and The Great Gatsby.
Holocaust survivor, Martin Greenfield came to the United States in 1947, after being the only member of his family to survive the horrors of a World War II concentration camp. He promptly took a job as a floor boy carrying unfinished garments from station to station for $35 a week at suit manufacturer GGG Clothing, located where Martin Greenfield Clothiers stands today.
Over the next thirty years, Greenfield mastered all 108 operations necessary to custom make men’s suits, moving up from supervisor to vice president at GGG. In 1977, Martin bought the company for $100,000 and renamed it Greenfield Clothiers.
If you want to read more about Martin Greenfields inspiring story, check out his book The Measure of a Man and this Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zrd7s-G8A4
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