After 90 Years in New York, Pat LaFrieda's Meat Shop Had to Move to Jersey

Pat LaFrieda Jr. may be the only butcher in America who is a household name. He comes from a long line of meat men (his great-grandfather emigrated from Italy and opened up shop in Brooklyn) who, for three generations, carved a name for themselves, first as LaFrieda Meats and then, when LaFrieda’s father took over the business, as Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors. When the company found itself in trouble in the early ’90s, LaFrieda, working as a stockbroker at the time, stepped in.