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Albany Avenue, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
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For the two weeks before Passover, this hand-matzah bakery runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. straight through, going into what DNAinfo called 'overdrive' to keep pace with community demand, according to DNAinfo's 2013 report on the Tenenbaum family operation.
The pressure is driven by a hard deadline rather than walk-in foot traffic: staff work to 'come into [Passover] and have no matzo left,' per DNAinfo, with each batch limited to an 18-minute production window under rabbinic supervision — a bottleneck that stacks up demand rather than a storefront queue.
Patterns as reported by press and regulars — not measured by damnlines.
There's no reported walk-in wait — the crunch is on production, not a customer line; DNAinfo describes the bakery running 8am-5pm nonstop for two weeks before Passover just to keep up with order demand.
The source doesn't describe a reservation system; matzah is produced to order/ship during the Nov-March season, per DNAinfo.
It's an unmarked storefront rather than a typical retail counter, per DNAinfo; specific walk-in purchase policy is not established by the source.
Sources: DNAinfo