Junior's is a restaurant chain with the original location at 386 Flatbush Avenue Extension at the corner of DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. Other locations include the Times Square area and the lobby of the Fox Tower in the Foxwoods Resort in Ledyard, Connecticut. The restaurant was founded by Harry Rosen in 1950, although his family had run a diner in that location, albeit not under the Junior's name, since 1929. It is now owned and run by his grandson Alan Rosen. The restaurant is known for iconic New York-style cheesecake. According to the restaurant, it was named Junior's after Rosen's two sons, Walter and Marvin.

History

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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." Current owner Alan Rosen identifies the roots of the cheesecake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.

Rosen worked with master baker Eigel Peterson In 2020, after reviewing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings of Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Post revealed that the Senate Minority Leader had spent US$8,600 on Junior's cheesecakes in a decade of purchases. Schumer admitted that he had spent a bundle over the years on Junior's cheesecakes, calling them his "guilty pleasure". Holding a platter of the famous dessert at a news conference, he quipped: "Guilty as charged. I love Junior's cheesecake so much. It's the best cheesecake in the world. It is made in Brooklyn. I've been going to Junior's since I've been a little boy. And it's my guilty pleasure."

In 1981, when the restaurant caught on fire, a crowd of people watching the firefighters started chanting "Save the Cheesecake!" The interior of the restaurant was modernized after the fire.

In April 2015, Junior's announced it would move its baking operations from Queens to Burlington, New Jersey.

In 2016, the location inside Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan was closed.

  • Junior's cheesecakes have been sold nationwide through various outlets, including the television shopping network, QVC.