Leo and Ruth Kaplan.
Alan Kaplan and Susie Jacobson.
The son of Russian immigrants, Leo Kaplan (1917-2013) was born and raised in a modest home in the Bronx. He worked in the lumber business but weekends spent ‘antiquing’ with his wife Ruth in the post-war era led to a first antiques fair (an outdoor flea market) in 1965 and, in 1969, the $400-a-month rent on a shop on Madison Avenue.