Cheesecake Corner in Brooklyn honors the Jewish founder of Junior’s restaurant
July 31, 2023
New York Jewish Week) — At the intersection of Flatbush Avenue Extension and Dekalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn sits Junior’s, an iconic New York restaurant and bakery famous for creating “The World’s Most Fabulous Cheesecake,” as they describe it.
For the last 24 years, the intersection has been known as Harry Rosen Way — Cheesecake Corner, named for the Jewish New Yorker who opened the Brooklyn institution in November 1950. Rosen died in 1996 at age 92; after handing the business to his sons, Junior’s is now run by grandsons Alan Rosen and Kevin Rosen.
“What a way to celebrate my grandfather’s legacy,” Alan Rosen told the New York Jewish Week on Thursday. “It was a great day. That guy would have loved this, he was a fancy guy. He would have loved to know he had a street corner named after him, especially in New York City.”
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