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The New York Times has an article on the Jahn's located on 37th Avenue...The Last One Standing

The New York Times
The Last One Standing
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Published: March 20, 2009

MENTION Jahn’s Ice Cream Parlor to anyone who grew up in the boroughs outside Manhattan in the past 75 years, and you’d likely elicit childhood stories that center on odd-sounding sundaes: the Awful Awful, the Screwball’s Delight and the often-discussed but rarely seen Kitchen Sink, a monstrous concoction comprising as many as 30 scoops and nearly as many toppings that helped make the chain a local legend.

Yet, at the only remaining outpost of the beloved franchise, on an undistinguished stretch of delis and banks on 37th Avenue at 81st Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, even a waiter struggles to remember what the names are all about.

What exactly is in the Nut Special?

“You know, it’s got the nuts.”

Don’t blame the help. More than 110 years after John Jahn opened his first ice cream parlor on Alexander Avenue in Mott Haven in the Bronx, his empire, which once numbered nearly 30 restaurants, is down to a single operation whose existence owes little to fanciful sundaes, birthday parties or turn-of-the-century décor.

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