A batch of graphite has just been delivered to this pencil factory in Germany. Once it’s been thoroughly mixed with clay, it’s ready to go into production, with around 550 pounds of the stuff making ...

GREENPOINT — THE LONGTIME PENCIL FACTORY bar at 142 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, which closed earlier this year, will remain a bar under new ownership by Tony Ismail of Café Alula and David Doyle of ...

While the 1950s saw more than 20 pencil manufacturing plants, several like Dixon Ticonderoga, which closed its Jersey City, New Jersey, plant in 1999, no longer have plants in the United States. In ...

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Ismail also runs Cafe Alula, a Lebanese cafe a few ...