When children first see New York, they’re shell-shocked by the mammoth buildings lining Central Park’s West, Fifth Ave. and Park Ave. It’s their first glimpse of Manhattan real estate.
Then they see the doorman, an amenity created by turn-of-the-century building owners for wealthy buyers. They see stripes on the doorman’s pants, braids on his jacket sleeve, and the military dark-brimmed hat. They watch him charge up with whistle in hand to halt a cab. They see him opening and closing the cab door, and marching back to the entrance to another grand building of New York.
Ever since there were doormen in New York, I. Buss Uniform Co.® has been hand-tailoring their outfits. Founded in 1892, the fourth-generation family business is still hard at work designing, supplying, tailoring and maintaining the outfits worn by the men who work the entrance and elevators at New York’s top residential buildings.
