- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Tucked away in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, beyond warehouses full of artist studios, tattoo shops, and used book stores, lies a little corner of serenity: BKE Kombucha. Located on a quiet street (well, quiet for Brooklyn), the kombucha brewery offers a place of respite for owners Saleena Subaiya and Lawrence Purpura.
For Subaiya, an emergency medicine physician, and Purpura, an infectious disease attending physician, the journey to opening BKE Kombucha’s doors was years in the making and, like all good stories, rife with unforeseen challenges, determination, tenacity and — most importantly — love.
Purpura, left, and Subaiya, right, at their space in Brooklyn, along with Gypsy the dog.
The pair met in April 2015 at a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) conference. They started talking and discovered they would both be stationed in Atlanta, Georgia, and both would be…
