b'2022Retailer HalloFameWONDER WOMENSINGLE-STORE INDEPENDENT Photo credit: Jason Crowley/BFA INDUCTEESSisters Jennifer and Christina Gandia Gambale have a symbioticrelationship that has served them and their New York City store well.C arlos and Milly Gandia opened a jewelrymake it even better, and move it from Lower Manhattan store in 1976 that has perseveredinto a big, beautiful new space uptown.through a terrorist attack, a recession, aNow, these invincible women are marking an hurricane, and a pandemic that turnedimpressive series of Retailer Hall of Fame firsts.the city it calls home upside down. Jennifer and Christina are the first two women and Forty-six years later, that New York City jewelryonly sisters to be inducted into National Jewelers Retailer store survives and is run by their daughters, JenniferHall of Fame together. Gandia and Christina Gandia Gambale, who have usedThey are also the halls first Latina inductees. their respective talents to take what their parents built, BY MICHELLE GRAFF18 RETAILER HALL OF FAME 2022'