As products have gotten less expensive and more disposable, many traditional repair industries have withered away. Against all odds, shoe repair has retained a tenuous foothold. More than 50 ...

At least someone’s making money in this economy. As New Yorkers cut back on spending and cobble together their cash, the city’s shoe repair stores are getting an unexpected boost. “It’s getting better ...

It's a sad, but true fact of wearing heels: Scuff marks and tears are inevitable on a favorite, well-worn pair. It can be especially disappointing if you pull them out of your closet for a formal ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. COVID-19 is doing something the march of modern times couldn’t: Kick shoe repair shops to the curb. “After [five ...

Cobbling is in George Triantafillidis’s blood, having spent his younger years working at his father’s shoe-repair shop in the Pru. Now at his own shop in the South End, Triantafillidis refinishes worn ...

FAIRBANKS — For the first time in years, Fairbanks has a shoe repair shop. Mike Hornbostel, 47, who learned the shoe repair trade on the south side of Chicago, has opened Fairbanks Shoe Repair at 409 ...

WILLMAR - When Jim Ackerman retires and closes the doors of Schiro's Shoe Repair on Thursday, it will signal the end of a business that first opened in 1922. Ackerman will have an open house with ...

After saving soles for 36½ years, Arthur Bracken has hung up his apron. The shoemaker is one of a dying breed as throwaway shoes have nearly shelved the need for the centuries-old shoe-repair industry ...

How did this business get started? Ramon Reyes, 45, is repairing soles one shoe at a time at Da Boot Shop, a full-service shoe and boot repair shop he founded in Fayetteville in 1996. “We are a family ...

Serene Cicora craved a new black bag last fall, but couldn’t come to terms with the $1,000-plus price tags on the styles she liked. So Cicora, an L.A. publicist, took her brown Mulberry Bayswater bag ...

Next to the original location of the iconic shop East Village Shoe Repair, a wall of graffiti reads “RIP St. Marks.” But even after 25 years of business — East Village Shoe Repair opened in 1994 at 1 ...