NEW YORK – Prominent Trinidadian businessman Conrad Ifill, whose Conrad’s Famous Bakery has been a fixture in Brooklyn, New York’s Caribbean community for decades, died last month after contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
“Ifill” His Trinidadian wife Faye Ifill, an elementary school teacher in New York, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that her husband died at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Long Island. Ifill was 81.
She said Ifill was first admitted to the hospital on April 3 and tested positive for COVID-19 two days later. He developed breathing complications.
Ifill said her husband, who owned two outlets of Conrad’s Famous Bakery on Utica and Church avenues in Brooklyn, was born on June 10, 1938 on Fun Rose Street, off the main Coffee Street, in San Fernando, Trinidad. She said Ifill “loved baking” and had “a generous heart.”
A note on the bakery’s website stated that “Conrad’s Famous Bakery has been baking bread for over 31 years” and that Ifill, the founder and owner, “quit his Computer Data Processing job on Wall Street (in lower Manhattan, New York) to pursue his dream of opening a Trinidadian Bakery.”
As an adult, Ifill migrated to the New York and pursued a career in the computer data processing and accounting.
“However, he was not satisfied with this career path and decided to quit his job and pursue his dream of owning a successful Caribbean bakery, featuring Trinidadian favorites,” the website added.
