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Video: Old-school Brooklyn hat store

Brooklyn's Bencraft Hatters, first opened in 1948, has been selling hats to Jews and non-Jews for 65 years.
Video: Old-school Brooklyn hat store
Sally Morrow

Brooklyn’s Bencraft Hatters, first opened in 1948, has been selling hats to Jews and non-Jews for 65 years.  The store carries everything from cowboy hats and flat caps to the fedoras and Homburgs favored by the religious crowd.

Video courtesy The Jewish Daily Forward


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