Thursday, March 27, 2025
B&H Photo, iconic Hasidic-owned electronics store in Midtown, is getting even bigger
B&H Photo, New York City's iconic, Hasidic-owned camera and video equipment store, is expanding.
Last week, The Real Deal revealed that B&H Photo was the "mystery buyer" that purchased 333 West 34th Street. According to the publication, property records show that an LLC, signed for by Zalman Gottlieb, the financial controller for the camera shop, purchased the 10-story property for $150 million.
That mammoth number is actually a relative bargain: It is $105 million less than global real estate firm Brookfield Properties spent on the 287,000-square-foot property in 2018.
Founded by a married couple, Blimie and Herman Schreiber, B&H Photo originally opened in Tribeca in 1973 and moved into its current "SuperStore" at 420 Ninth Ave., at West 34th Street, in 1997. Like its founders, many of B&H's employees are Satmar Hasidic Jews — the shop is closed on Saturdays in observance of Shabbat, and kosher candies are available for free at checkout.
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