Lexington Candy Shop
Happy National Egg Cream Day everyone. In honor of this holiday, we are highlighting the oldest continuously operating luncheonette in Manhattan where you can still get an authentic egg cream, Lexington Candy Shop. The egg cream (swipe left for 2nd photo) is a quintessential New York beverage originally served in candy stores throughout the Lower East Side beginning in the 1920s. Contrary to its name, the egg cream does not contain eggs or cream but is a mixture of very cold milk, seltzer, and flavored syrup. It is believed that the name “egg cream” came from the egg-white-like foam that rose to the top of the glass. Another theory about its unusual name is that the words echt keem, Yiddish for “pure sweetness” were used to describe the drink and the Anglicized form of the words led to “egg cream.
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We included our 2019 photo of this historic candy shop, which was founded in 1925 in our book “Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City’s Independent Shops, Past and Present” (swipe left for 3rd photo of page spread ) which is available in booksellers worldwide. Store Front NYC includes many of our favorite storefront photos taken using 35mm film in the early 2000s as well as many previously unpublished photos like this photo which we did not include in our previous books. We encourage you to visit @lexingtoncandyshop as entering the shop is like stepping back in time with its gorgeous vintage interior, which has not been renovated since 1948. We are huge fans of their egg creams (swipe left for 4th photo) especially their coffee-flavored egg cream but we also love their delicious milk shakes and maltedsmade using their 1940s mint green Hamilton Beach mixer.
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#eggcream #storefront #jamesandkarla #dinersdriveinsanddives #luncheonette #diners #dinerfood #maltedmilk #milkshakes
Lexington Candy Shop
Happy National Egg Cream Day everyone. In honor of this holiday, we are highlighting the oldest continuously operating luncheonette in Manhattan where you can still get an authentic egg cream, Lexington Candy Shop. The egg cream (swipe left for 2nd photo) is a quintessential New York beverage originally served in candy stores throughout the Lower East Side beginning in the 1920s. Contrary to its name, the egg cream does not contain eggs or cream but is a mixture of very cold milk, seltzer, and flavored syrup. It is believed that the name “egg cream” came from the egg-white-like foam that rose to the top of the glass. Another theory about its unusual name is that the words echt keem, Yiddish for “pure sweetness” were used to describe the drink and the Anglicized form of the words led to “egg cream.
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We included our 2019 photo of this historic candy shop, which was founded in 1925 in our book “Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City’s Independent Shops, Past and Present” (swipe left for 3rd photo of page spread ) which is available in booksellers worldwide. Store Front NYC includes many of our favorite storefront photos taken using 35mm film in the early 2000s as well as many previously unpublished photos like this photo which we did not include in our previous books. We encourage you to visit @lexingtoncandyshop as entering the shop is like stepping back in time with its gorgeous vintage interior, which has not been renovated since 1948. We are huge fans of their egg creams (swipe left for 4th photo) especially their coffee-flavored egg cream but we also love their delicious milk shakes and maltedsmade using their 1940s mint green Hamilton Beach mixer.
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#eggcream #storefront #jamesandkarla #dinersdriveinsanddives #luncheonette #diners #dinerfood #maltedmilk #milkshakes