Max and Clara Fortunoff started selling pots and pans from a pushcart on Brooklyn’s Livonia Avenue under the elevated train tracks in front of their apartment in 1922. By 2003, their grandchildren primarily were running Fortunoff, which had become a multimillion-dollar home furnishings and jewelry business that was headquartered in Westbury and had six high-end Fortunoff department stores in New York and New Jersey, including a store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan that was the flagship of the jewelry division. Now, 100 years after Max and Clara Fortunoff’s humble retail start in the Brownsville East section of Brooklyn, their business as it existed during its heyday is gone, but the brand name lives on through smaller retail operations involving their grandchildren. Visit the link in bio for the full story. (Photo credit: Newsday File) . . . #longisland #liny #nassau #suffolk #nassaucounty #suffolkcounty #nyc #newyork #longislandny #fortunoff #history #historic #business #departmentstore #legacy #family #linkinbio