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Get to Know ...Donna Distefano Thomas.
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Jewelers Circular Keystone
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May 1, 2008
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By Bacilio Mendez II
The area around the High Line--a 1.45-mile-long historic elevated rail structure that runs through 20 blocks of West Chelsea in New York--was home to many jewelers when an organization called Friends of the High Line began its initiative to convert the abandoned freight train track into what it calls a "linear public place." Donna Distefano Thomas was one of them.
Donna Distefano Ltd. has been based in Chelsea since 1997. It's a far cry from Thomas's beginning as jeweler, when, she says, "At age 10 I opened my first 'studio,' in my mom's garage." Though her rent may have skyrocketed since she moved out of that garage, Thomas's imagination has ...