FNYC StandardsSince 1925
Old-School Cafés & Soda Fountains →Lexington Candy Shop — Upper East Side
A working soda fountain — order the egg cream and a grilled cheese at the counter
Picks like this, every Friday
Seven things worth leaving the apartment for, hand-checked. One short email, free, one tap to leave.
More in Old-School Cafés & Soda Fountains
- Eddie's Sweet Shop — Forest HillsNew York's oldest ice cream parlor — everything made in-house at the original marble counter
- Caffe Reggio — Greenwich Village119 MacDougal St · Claims America’s first cappuccino, from a 1902 espresso machine still in the room
- Serendipity 3 — Upper East Side225 E 60th St · Home of the Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and the over-the-top sundae
- Hungarian Pastry Shop — Morningside Heights1030 Amsterdam Ave · Strudel, cake and bottomless coffee across from St. John the Divine — bring a book
- Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain — Carroll Gardens513 Henry St · A restored 1920s apothecary — egg creams, sundaes, floats, house-made sodas