Naugatuck loses icon, longtime department store to close
Howard ‘Howie’ Rosenblatt is shown a couple years ago with his granddaughters, Ashley, left, and Lily, at Rosenblatt’s Department Store in Naugatuck. –CONTRIBUTED
NAUGATUCK The Rosenblatts have put the “family” in family business for over 100 years a legacy that was proudly carried on by Howard “Howie” Rosenblatt.
Rosenblatt, a pillar of the Naugatuck community and owner of Rosenblatt’s Department Store on Maple Street, died Feb. 15 of cancer. He was 74.
Rosenblatt’s Department Store first opened its doors over a century ago in the Union City section of Naugatuck. A family business through and through, Howie Rosenblatt’s grandfather, Morris Rosenblatt, started the store and passed it on to his son, William Rosenblatt.