Stephen A. Miller

He was a restaurateur, pedagogical expert, and creator, manufacturer, and distributor of educational and creative toys, a number of which were sold at the Museum of Modern Art Gift Shop.

He founded the café The Hip Bagel on MacDougel Street in New York City's Greenwich Village with NYC restaurateur Shelly Fireman in the early 1960s.

From 1979, until his death in 1993, he was president and major stockholder of the Willette Corporation, designers and manufacturers of vitreous china bathroom accessories in New Brunswick, New Jersey; a family business founded by his maternal grandparents, William and Ethel Elstein in 1921.

Miller's first adult entrepreneurship was the creation of the popular 1960s café, The Hip Bagel, which opened in 1963 in Greenwich Village, NYC.

[3] Avec, a French restaurant, opened in November 1964, located a block from The Hip Bagel on Bleecker Street, also in Greenwich Village.

Stephen had negotiated for the exclusive American rights to import certain European toys by such distinguished designers as Lis and Kurt Naef of Naefspiele, Peer Clahsen, Fredun Shapur, Patrick Rylands, and many others.

[8] He also appeared on the David Susskind show discussing creative play for children on December 29, 1969,[9] and in the film, Crayon People by Steven Skloot in 1982.