He’d Eaten Cheese His Whole Life Long
Here at Murray’s headquarters, we do a lot more than sell cheese. We teach classes about cheese, we age cheese, we make t-shirts about cheese, we devise the… Read More
I Just Can’t Wait to be King (of Cheeses)
by Miriam Arkin Here at Murray’s we find that the coming of fall (heralding all the delicious things that can be pulled from the ground, cut from the… Read More

Murray Greenberg (never met him; he died before I got here) was a Jewish Spanish civil war veteran and communist who opened a wholesale butter and egg shop a few doors up Cornelia street in 1940. The old timers tell me that even though he was an old leftie, he was still a street smart capitalist who used to buy cheese cheap and trim it and sell it. 




