email INTERVIEW: Tier’s Latest Collection Is An Ode To Black Joy, Black Beauty, And The Power Of The Black Dollar
We spoke with the three co-founders behind the chic streetwear brand.
Published February 23rd
Written by Tira Urquhart
The culture of streetwear was born in New York, and three designers from Brooklyn are doing their best to keep it that way. Tier is a New York City based chic streetwear brand founded six years ago by three fraternity brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi.
Nigeria Ealey, Victor James, and Esaïe Jean-Simon are making waves in the fashion industry.
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Roloâs, From Gramercy Tavern Alumni, Opens in Ridgewood, Queens
A pop-up with ties to High Street on Hudson, a vegan bistro from the Beyond Sushi team and more restaurant news.
From left, Rafiq Salim, Howard Kalachnikoff, Kelly Mencin and Paul Wetzel, the chefs at Roloâs in Ridgewood, Queens.Credit.Calla Kessler for The New York Times
Roloâs
Four former Gramercy Tavern alumni have collaborated, with two partners, to open this restaurant. âWe all got fine dining out of our systems and wanted to do something modest and simple, like the restaurants we want to go to, like Frankies Spuntino,â said Howard Kalachnikoff, a former chef de cuisine at Gramercy Tavern. His partners are Rafiq Salim and Paul Wetzel, previously sous-chefs at Gramercy, and Ben Howell, who was a bar manager there and is overseeing front of the house. The pastry chef is Kelly Mencin, who is not a partner but was also at Gramercy Tavern. It took these colleagues more than five years to c