Go to the Frequently Asked Questions section of the website for Greenbaum Interiors (www.greenbauminteriors.com) and one of the questions you will find is “What are you doing in downtown Paterson?” The simple answer to that question is that Greenbaum Interiors is doing what they have been doing for over 50 years – providing elegant, custom-designed interiors and furnishings for homes throughout the New York metropolitan area.

A family-owned business from the start, Greenbaum Interiors has stepped forward as a valuable partner to Paterson Habitat in the construction of our Lowe’s Women Build house on North 1^st Street.  On May 12^th,   family members Susan Greenbaum Gross and Ellen Greenbaum hosted a fund-raising luncheon at Greenbaum Interiors that raised $20,000 towards the cost of the Women Build house. Women Build homes are built almost entirely by women construction volunteers and Greenbaum Interiors will be sending teams of women to work on the house for two days in July.  

The firm’s commitment to Women Build is a natural fit with its commitment to Paterson that began when brothers Alvin and Jimmy Greenbaum started the business in 1952.  Since then their facilities in Paterson’s historic district have been expanded five times. The 140,000 square-foot complex includes showrooms for retail customers plus workrooms for the 30 artisans who make the furnishings that cannot be sourced around the world. Greenbaum Interiors has a second retail site, its Country Mile House store in Morristown, but as the company’s support for Women Build demonstrates, its heart is in Paterson.