In 1996, Magnolia Bakery opened its first shop in the West Village; 30 years later, the iconic brand is finally expanding to Staten Island through its first-ever New York franchise

When the first Magnolia Bakery opened on a quaint cobblestone corner in New York City’s West Village in the summer of 1996, it was a simple neighborhood shop selling classic American baked goods.

The sweet scent of cakes, cookies, pies, and pudding tumbled through the quiet streets, but it was the bakery’s appearance in Sex and the City in 2000 that officially catapulted it to stardom…