THE History of Tremont Paint
Just two-years after emigrating to the United States, Esther and Isaac Lipton borrowed $500 from a collection of family members and opened a paint store on Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, New York.
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It was 1907.
When Esther began purchasing paint from brothers Benjamin and Robert Moore she began a relationship with their company which spanned more than a century. With Isaac delivering it by rickshaw, Tremont Paint quickly outgrew its original location and in 1910 the store was moved Claremont Parkway in the Bronx, where Tremont would prosper for 58-years.
Esther and Isaac Lipton, 1900
Esther, Isaac, Benjamin and Robert could not have known at that time that the relationship they formed over the counter of Tremont Paint would keep the families connected through their businesses for more than 112-years.
Ester and Isaac had two sons the older of which, Jack, began working behind the counter at Tremont Paint in 1925.
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In 1958 Jack was joined behind the counter by his son William. Billy, to all who would know him.
By the late 1960’s the neighborhood around Tremont Paint had become the poster child for the urban blight, looking for safer environs Jack moved to Florida and Billy moved the store to Broadway in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, where it remained another 60 years.
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In 1988 Billy was joined behind the counter by his son Mark, the pair working together until 1992 when Mark became the fourth generation of Lipton’s to lead Tremont Paint.
Jack Lipton 1950's
Billy Lipton 1974
During Mark’s tenure Tremont Paint maintained its status as one of New York’s premier independent paint retailers, but the Lipton's had made their last paint retailer. With the great-great-grandchildren of Ester and Isaac Lipton showing no interest in the business Tremont Paint was sold to the New York City retailer Janovic, in October of 2019.
Mark Lipton 2020