{"id":271166,"date":"2026-06-18T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:31:11","slug":"how-this-century-old-nyc-family-business-achieved-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/271166\/","title":{"rendered":"How this century-old NYC family business achieved the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Adam Brand is the fourth generation in his family to run M&amp;S Schmalberg, a New York-based custom fabric flower shop founded by his great-great uncles Morris and Sam Schmalberg in 1916. Today, its flowers of all shapes, sizes and materials appear on Met Gala red carpets and in TV shows like HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Sex and The City&#8221; and Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Bridgerton.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Adam Brand is the fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3970,3468,9,24,56,63,65,64,21262,2990],"class_list":["post-271166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-positive","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}