While visiting the East Harlem side of Central Park, one might...you know, need a nosh. The red-bricked stand with the tin roof that houses "Knish Nosh" provides folks visiting the Conservatory Gardens or the Museum of the City of New York with the basic dogs, cones and sodas, but also is known for knishes. The Bespokesman used to live across from Yonah Shimmel's Knish Shop on the Lower East Side, so seeing Knish Nosh in this corner of Harlem was a pleasant surprise. By the way, a knish is an old world potato-laden pastry that the Jewish immigrants brought over in the 19th and early 20th Century (of which many settled in Harlem). They come in savory combinations and sweet fruit versions also. Very dense, so come hungry if you are to try one. Knish Nosh is at 5th Avenue and 107th Street. Take the 2,3 Train to 110th Street and walk east, then south. If you're coming from Broadway north of 110th Street, take the M4 bus, getting off across the street from the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue at 104th Street. See separate post on Jewish Harlem: LINK
My Grandpa used to live near Yonah Shimmel's Knish shop in the 1920's and 1930's. He used to talk about all the shops in the LES back then, the push carts on or near Orchard st,and he mentioned this knish shop..Yonah Shimmel's. Well, a few years after he died, years ago now, while walking through the LES, I found Yonah's and nearly cried. I was reliving a piece of my Grandpa's youth, thank God it was still there, a piece of our city's history.
ReplyDeleteMy Grandpa used to live near Yonah Shimmel's Knish shop in the 1920's and 1930's. He used to talk about all the shops in the LES back then, the push carts on or near Orchard st,and he mentioned this knish shop..Yonah Shimmel's. Well, a few years after he died, years ago now, while walking through the LES, I found Yonah's and nearly cried. I was reliving a piece of my Grandpa's youth, thank God it was still there, a piece of our city's history.
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