John’s of 12th Street in the East Village is one of Manhattan’s oldest and most storied red-sauce Italian restaurants. Founded in 1908, John’s hosted a speakeasy and was favored by gangsters during Prohibition. In 1922, it...more
In 1950, Sam Hoffman and his two sons, Hyman and Melvin, founded Brooklyn-based Cornell Beverages, Inc. to manufacture and distribute seltzer. Those were the days when “seltzer men” made weekly home deliveries of cases of...more