Junior's
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- This article is about the restaurant in New York City. For the restaurant in Atlanta, see Junior's Grill.
Junior's is a restaurant at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn (386 Flatbush Avenue). The restaurant also has an outlet inside Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and one in the Times Square area. The restaurant was founded by Harry Rosen in 1950. The restaurant was named Junior's after his two sons, Walter and Marvin. In 1982, Governor Mario Cuomo declared May 27th as Junior’s Restaurant Day. [1]
According to GO Brooklyn, "At the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues in Downtown Brooklyn, there has been a diner run by the Rosen family since 1929. In 1950, the name was changed to Junior's, and it has been serving its famous cheesecake and other goodies ever since. The interior of Junior's was modernized in 1983 after a major fire in the restaurant. The diner was recently featured in the Brooklyn Public Library's children's book of Brooklyn landmarks, "Brooklyn Pops Up."[2]
It is nationally known for its cheesecake. Rosen worked with Master baker, Eigel Peterson, on the Rosen family's recipe to create the cheesecake known today as "The World's Most Fabulous Cheesecake" based on a recipe that was in the Rosen family for three generations.[3]
It was also famously featured in an episode of Making the Band 2, when Diddy made Da Band walk to the Brooklyn location to get him a piece of cheesecake as a form of hazing.
