Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery

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An old shop and still where people send you for a . The is the pick and runs about $4.50. Regulars say buy it and heat it at home, since the counter sometimes microwaves it. A few longtime eaters think it fell off and find the too dense now.

NYC classic — Yonah Schimmel, an immigrant from Galicia, began selling knishes from a Lower East Side pushcart around 1890, and the business settled into its East Houston Street storefront in the 1930s. Still run by his descendants, it uses the same potato and kasha recipes as at its opening and is a landmark of Jewish New York. Wikipedia

137 E Houston St, New YorkLower East Side, ManhattanGoogle Maps

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