Neighborhood Spot: Bubby’s Founder Ron Silver on 30-Plus Years of Pies and Art in Tribeca

By Grace Cassidy

In the three decades since opening its doors at 120 Hudson Street in Tribeca, Bubby’s has secured its status as a local institution and neighborhood treasure. Beginning as a pop-up pie shop on Thanksgiving Day in 1990, the restaurant has endured not just as a beloved brunch spot, but also as a rare constant in a NYC neighborhood that has seen its share of change.

“In 1990, Tribeca was a very different neighborhood,” the chef and owner, Ron Silver, recalled. “There wasn’t a traffic light. There were a lot of wholesale food vendors, groceries, eggs, dairy—that kind of thing. It was much more off-the-beaten path of Manhattan and used to be very quiet.”

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