Trophies Available in New Hyde Park

Crown Trophy on Jericho Turnpike is nationally-known and locally-owned by Ron and Claudia Shapiro, who essentially fell into this business and started from scratch. Before officially opening in May 2005, Shapiro said she and her husband started selling products out of their garage in 2004 until all the permits were cleared for the store.

“My husband had been in sales for 25-years of medical equipment for hospitals and the job was getting more and more strenuous on him…and he wasn’t happy where he was,” Claudia Shapiro said. “I was basically out of a job and I had started my own translation business from home but it didn’t really generate much income.”

When a good friend of the Shapiro’s, who knew the owners of the Crown Company, came to them with the job offer, they didn’t hesitate to take it. The location was already set in New Hyde Park, and the Shapiro’s thought it was perfect, only being 20-minutes away from their home in Port Washington.

“We talked to the owners; we had no idea about the business," Shapiro said. "I thought when I heard engraving that we would be sitting there with an etching needle, but the first time I saw the laser machine going, it was much easier."

“We talked to the owners; we had no idea about the business," Shapiro said. "I thought when I heard engraving that we would be sitting there with an etching needle, but the first time I saw the laser machine going, it was much easier."

Now, six years in, business had been good to the couple, who sell everything from sculptures, glass, plaques, acrylics, pins medals and trophies. “Our top product to sell is [probably] the Rosewood plaque,” Shapiro said. “It is $50 dollars and with engraving it is $65 or $70 dollars depending on how much engraving you have, but there’s crystal and so many different styles of trophies, so it’s hard to say.”

Crown Trophy does engraving for different sports, churches, leagues, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, committees, businesses and universities such as Adelphi and St. John’s.

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