Nathan Schwartz is the inventor of a revolutionary technology for making waterproof shoes, the founder of the famous American brand and shoe empire Timberland. His story was told by the Russian-American Heritage Museum project. Nathan Schwartz was born in 1902 in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, in a poor…

In New York, after more than 150 years of operation, the famous FAO Schwarz toy store has closed. The closure of the oldest and most famous toy store in the United States was due to growing rentals at an exclusive address: Fifth Avenue opposite the Plaza Hotel. “This is the end of an era and me from ...