article_snippet: the century-old factory has annual sales topping $20million as Aron Streit's matzos are sold around the country and worldwide . '
article_snippet: This early 1960s photo shows the storefront of Streit's matzo factory at the corner of Rivington St. and Suffolk St. in New York's Lower East Side .
article_snippet: Another photo from the early 1960s shows a rabbi, center, supervising the Passover matzo production at Streit's matzo factory, and pictured right is Aron Gross, the great-great grandson of the company founder Aron Streit .
article_snippet: For many workers like Adramov, the company founder Aron Streitthe company founder Aron Streit's factory has provided a steady job for 25 years, in fact, his only job since coming to America from Uzbekistan .
article_snippet: However, Streit's matzo factory does not live off nostalgia, as Streit's matzo factory is a smartly run family business with annual sales topping $20million on about 5million pounds of matzos sold around the country and worldwide.
article_snippet: Streit's matzo factory simply cannot keep up with demand, said Aaron Gross, head of sales and marketing at Streit's and one of three cousins running the day-to-day operations. '
article_snippet: Gross, the great-great grandson of Streit,' says Karen Kriendler Nelson, whose relatives organized a pre-Passover family reunion at Streit's matzo factory.
article_snippet: The current Streit's production line dates back to the 1930s and the baking process is strictly timed.
article_snippet: The current Streit's production line may take no more than 18 minutes from the moment the flour and water are mixed to when matzos emerge from a gas-fired, tunnel-like oven to cool in metal baskets that hang off rusty tracks, inching slowly to the packaging operation.
article_snippet: Mass-produced and machine-packaged, These are a modern effort to preserve tradition.
highlights_snippet: Streit's matzos factory in Manhattan is shutting down Streit's matzos factory in Manhattan nine-decade-old ovens by year's end to move to 21st century computerized plant in another part of the New York area .
  
highlights_snippet: Streit's matzos factory in Manhattan has annual sales topping $20million based on 5million pounds of matzos sold .
  