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The Owner
Jetmira Gjini
Jetmira was born in Albania and came to New York as a young woman. She entered the city's hospitality world not as a guest but as someone who made sure it was fair.
As a Business Agent for the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council — the AFL-CIO union representing nearly 40,000 hotel and gaming workers across New York and New Jersey — she investigated wage theft, confronted hotel management, and got workers their money back. She visited hotels undercover. She gathered evidence.
In 2018, the Time's Up movement invited her to speak at Tribeca Film Festival alongside Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore, and Marisa Tomei. She represented labor. She represented women who couldn't afford lawyers.
After her union years, she co-founded Cozy Corner in Ridgewood, Brooklyn. Then she went further. Old Mill in Bushwick is hers — built on her own terms, for this neighborhood.
The Place
Why "Old Mill"?
An old mill is one of the oldest buildings humans ever made. Long before cafés existed, there was the mill — the place at the center of a community where people brought what they had grown, and left with something they could use.
Grain in. Flour out. The transformation happened quietly, inside stone walls, before anyone was watching. The miller didn't announce the work. The work announced itself.
We thought about that a lot when we named this place. We are in Bushwick, Brooklyn — but the principle is the same. You bring what you have. You leave with something that sustains you.
The Community
Built for
this neighborhood.
Before Old Mill, Jetmira spent years making sure the people who run New York's hospitality industry were treated fairly. Housekeepers, bartenders, front desk workers — the people most guests never think about. She thought about them every day.
Old Mill is the continuation of that work, by other means. A space where the neighborhood gathers. Where the welcome is genuine because it was earned, not performed. Where everyone who walks in is treated the way Jetmira spent her career insisting workers should be treated — with dignity and warmth.
This is not a survival story. It is a sovereignty story.