Neighborhood Side Streets

Frames For You - 136 West 72nd StreetAlexander, the current owner of Frames For You, came to the United States from the former Yugoslavia, where he was a film director. He could not be a film director in the United States “for many reasons,” he explained, but he wanted to find a job related to art in some way. While showing some of his favorite framed pieces, Alexander said that he works with everything from small family photographs to big projects for the Metropolitan Opera. Surprisingly, many of the picture frames at Lincoln Center have come from this little workshop. Alexander also shared that he does smaller projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum, such as gifts for donors.

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