Aubrey Strobel is on the hunt for antique furniture, but not to decorate her apartment. Her search is part of a journey into her family’s history. She is the last Strobel in New York — a descendant of Philip Strobel, a German-born woodworker who founded Philip Strobel & Sons in 1852
The Church of the Transfiguration pushed back Sunday, Aug. 14, against the pandemic’s lingering effects of a stagnant economy, Asian hate crimes, and continued grief for those who died from COVID complications.
Emptied restaurants and storefronts. People wearing N-95 protective masks, covering their faces, hurriedly walking through the barren streets. These are common sights nowadays in New York’s multiple Chinatowns throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
