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In New York City, there is still at least one remaining place untouched by modern technology.

At Gramercy Typterwriter Co., there is no eye screen – the most advanced part of the technology can simply be wireless fixed phone in a counter.

“I prefer to write someone a letter on an email every day,” the post the writing machine technician Jay Schweitzer told the post, who inherited the business from his father.

“It’s a beautiful sound. I mean, there is nothing like that.”

But repairing the typewriter is a faded field. In offand, Schweitzer can name some remaining typewriter shops across the country, but this month, the only typewriter in Boston is closing – and Gramercy Typewriter CO is the last NYC.

The company was started by Schweitzer’s grandfather, Abraham, and passed on to Jay’s father, Paul, who, in 87, is still fixing cars every day.

“Retirement was never something to take into account,” said the new Schweitzer. “He slowed down it a little, but he enjoys what he does and is looking forward to being in that working bar every day.”

Today, they sell on average 40 to 50 typewriters each month, with inventory-some of which were won from closed stores from the region-dating back decades.

Machines have even been borrowed for Hollywood projects and stage productions, from “The Wonderful Madaus Maisel” to the “The Post” of Steven Spielberg. Currently, company typewriters can be followed on stage at the Broadway show “Good night and good luck” interpreting George Clooney.

The third generation family business never worried about entering the computer industry despite the rapid development of the world’s wide network.

Machines are built in the past centuries not laptops that give half a decade-are more of their kind.

“I don’t meet many people who say,” I’ll go to fix my laptop. “It is simply not cost effective.

“It doesn’t happen here.”

Growing up, he would not come to work with his father during the summer vacation from school to see and teach the family traded, often loaded with “things like strips spool”.

At that time, the typewriter was in every office at each table, but when the computer gains withdrawal among the public, relics were moved to the closure of the storage and left to collect dust.

But it did not wet the souls of schweitzers.

While dozens of competitors tried to adapt to technological advances at the time – immersed in duplicates, printers and even computers – gramlercy Car typewriter stayed with a part of the car they knew.

“It was already a very redundant business and they were trying to catch as they were just learning,” Schweitzer recalled. “My dad didn’t feel it was time at his age to start learning something new.”

He added: “It was like learning a new language and he did not want to start returning to school, saying.”

That is, perhaps, the secret of their long business, which has flourished since 1932, exceeding all their competitors.

But his clients include generations, one of the oldest Clientle who have used cars for years by General Z, who has been creating a revival of old school relics, such as landline phones, records and even tapes.

“We have parents who come in with these 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-year-olds who have seen the typewriter somewhere and the tool for him, be it a movie, television shows, broadway, the house of a friend,” Schweitzer explained.

Parents, he said, are happy to spray on the oppression object if they keep their children “away from the screen”.

“Despite the reason they are getting a typewriter, one thing is for sure,” Schweitzer said.

“Even when they are not being used and they are sitting on a table or a piece of furniture, they look beautiful, the best thing with the best look that someone has in their home or office-and will continue to be easily available to use for the next decades.”