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Barry Fixler
Barry’s Estate Jewelry
Bardonia, NY
What you remember most about Barry’s Estate Jewelry, 295 Route 304 in Bardonia, is Barry.
Barry Fixler cares deeply about his country, his community and his customers.
“When people come in here, they can lower their guard,” said Fixler, who exudes calm from behind his store counter. “They come in as strangers and walk out as friends.”
Fixler prides himself on being honorable, sincere, open and “maybe too fair.”
Fixler’s door has been open at the same location since 1992. He’s a third-generation jeweler who started on his own in 1981.
“I never thought I’d do anything other than jewelry,” he said.
Barry’s Estate carries jewelry for all occasions, from weddings and anniversaries to holidays and commemorative moments.
Fixler also buys gold jewelry, and people have been selling a lot of old gold lately because styles have changed and the price of gold has soared.
As valuable as gold is Fixler’s word. He’s a patriot who is constantly involved in the community, both through the Rotary Club and his own initiative.
Fixler recently added $10,000 to the reward fund for a missing New York woman who was last seen with a sex offender from Orange County.
Some may recognize Fixler from his unwanted brush with celebrity in February 2005, when two would-be robbers pulled guns on him in his Bardonia store.
The quick-reacting Vietnam War combat veteran snatched his own gun and fired. Fixler won, and he was hailed as a local hero.
But Fixler is content to be known simply as the local jeweler who is happy, fair and cares.
“No one ever walks out that door disappointed,” he said.
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