| Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery | |
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 Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery | |
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| Established | 1890 |
| Food type | Kosher bakery |
| Street address | 137 East Houston Street (between First Avenue and Second Avenue), on the Lower East Side of Manhattan |
| City | New York City, New York |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 10002 |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°43′23.23″N 73°59′24.51″W / 40.7231194°N 73.9901417°W |
| Website | knishery.com |
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery is a bakery and restaurant, located at 137 East Houston Street (between First Avenue and Second Avenue), in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, that has been selling knishes on the Lower East Side since 1890. Its current location on Houston Street opened in 1910.[1] It is not certified orthodox kosher.
As the Lower East Side has changed over the decades and many of its Jewish residents have departed, Yonah Schimmel's is one of the few distinctly Jewish businesses and restaurants that remain as a fixture of this largely departed culture and cuisine.[2][3]
As cited in The Underground Gourmet, a review of Yonah Schimmel's in a collection of restaurant reviews by Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder, "No New York politician in the last 50 years has been elected to office without having at least one photograph showing him on the Lower East Side with a knish in his face."[4]
- ^ "Yonah Schimmel Knishery in New York City, USA". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on January 25, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ^ Topics ; Preservation Tales; Knisheries, Calories, The New York Times, February 5, 1985. Accessed June 21, 2007.
- ^ Berger, Joseph (September 2, 2004). "Trendiness Among the Tenements; Descendants Return to a Remade Lower East Side". The New York Times. Retrieved June 21, 2007.
H. Eckstein & Sons was not quite as much a fixture of the Lower East Side as Guss's Pickles or Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery.
- ^ Asimov, Eric (December 27, 1996). "$25 and Under". The New York Times. Retrieved June 21, 2007.