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Phillip Brandel poses with some of his leather work outside the Lake Placid News and Adirondack Daily Enterprise offices in Saranac Lake on Tuesday, April 20. (News photo — Elizabeth Izzo)
Samples of Phillip Brandel’s leather work (News photo — Elizabeth Izzo)
Phillip Brandel poses with some of his leather work outside the Lake Placid News and Adirondack Daily Enterprise offices in Saranac Lake on Tuesday, April 20. (News photo — Elizabeth Izzo)
LAKE PLACID — Phillip Brandel has been through it all, and now he’s trying to start a business and help others like him.
Brandel, 27, now lives in Lake Placid. He grew up in the south Bronx, and from the moment he was born, he’s had to fight to survive.