Ottman & Company: Meatpacking District Pioneers

Although today’s Meatpacking District is known for the Highline, trendy restaurants and avant-garde art, it had been New York's meatpacking hub for over a century. At its height, the neighborhood was home to 150-250 meat businesses that helped put America's finest meat on the tables of New York's restaurants — from small mom & pop eateries to America's top steakhouses like Delmonico's and Peter Luger.

One of these businesses was Ottman & Company, a meat purveyor dubbed the “Tiffany of the Meat Business.” With roots to NYC’s Fulton Market in 1850, it would distinguish itself with an A-list customer clientele, and, a century later, for pioneering technologies for processing, packaging and distributing meat that are still used in restaurant and home kitchens today.