Abraham Mussafi, an Israeli turned New Yorker, has been making and selling leather jackets and other leather products, for the last few decades. Before he started selling leather products, he was the owner of a clothing store. He decided to move to selling leather products because he found that selling clothes wasn’t fulfilling enough.

After decades of experience selling leather products, Mussafi says the market has changed quite a lot in the last few years. He explains why he thinks that customers in East Harlem are no longer buying luxury products like leather jackets as much as they used to a few years ago.

Click on the play button below to hear Mussafi’s thoughts on the leather jacket business.

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