“Aron Streit’s”, the last family-owned matzo factory in the US and the last matzo factory in Manhattan, is not so young anymore. It is all grown up, celebrating its 99th anniversary this year.

In fact, it grew up so much so it can no longer keep up with the fast-increasing demand for that Jewish delicacy of squarish “poor man’s bread”, as it’s called in the Hagada of Passover.

And so, the time to move to a new, more spacious and technologically advanced place has come. By the end of May 2015, the wonderful smell of warm childhood memories and great family traditions, that came out of the ovens in the four converted 19th-century brick tenements on Rivington Street, will cease to fill the air of the lower-east side of the island.

But not to worry, Matzo-lovers!

The family is already in the process of relocating its facilities to somewhere else in the tri-state area, and will still continue to provide its loyal costumers their loved but unleavened bread products.