Junior's Cheesecake Downtown Brooklyn
Junior’s Cheesecake in Downtown Brooklyn. Photo by Mary Hautman

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Junior’s Cheesecake has been a Brooklyn institution since 1950, and has served every sitting U.S. president since then. Here’s what the restaurant’s current owner had to say about an offer to buy it.

“That restaurant is so much part of Brooklyn’s identity, my family’s identity, our history, our heritage. I don’t think I could look myself in the mirror — the person who wanted to buy it didn’t want us coming back in there, either.”

— Alan Rosen of Junior’s Cheesecake in an interview on Heritage Radio. Listen to the whole show here.

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