Under five dollars for an egg cream at a genuine old school soda fountain is either a rumor or a New York miracle and this place is very much the second one.
The real thing, poured correctly, in a setting so unchanged produces the specific and deeply enjoyable feeling of having stepped sideways out of 2026 and into somewhere considerably more relaxed.
New York has a talent for preserving the things worth keeping and this soda fountain has been kept extraordinarily well. The egg cream here is not a novelty or a tribute act…