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Baggu

“Baggu” means bag in Japanese, which makes sense, as its founder is one quarter Japanese. Emily Sugihara started the company with her mom, Joan, in 2007. They wanted to make reusable shopping bags, but discovered when looking for manufacturers that they couldn’t just get 100 bags made, but had to commit to tens of thousands of units. It […]

Neighbor

We are husband and wife, Emily and Archie Coates. We live in an old tea factory tucked under the Williamsburg Bridge on South 4th Street in Brooklyn, where we’ve spent nearly the past two years running a part-time restaurant called Neighbor.

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