Max and Mina's
71-24 Main Street | also 71-28A Main Street, 71-32A Main Street, 71-40 Main Street | Kew Gardens Hills | built 1939
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1997
Max and Mina's ice cream shop opens on Main Street
Max and Mina's, an ice cream store at 71-26 Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills, opened in 1997 and is owned by brothers Bruce and Mark Becker. The shop is known for odd, constantly rotating flavors such as Cajun, lox, Purple Mint Chip, beer and malt, and some Manhattan restaurants serve its ice cream on their dessert menus.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
A book on ice cream ranks Max and Mina's first among America's ten most unusual parlors
In July 2004, Emmis Books published Everybody Loves Ice Cream, by Shannos Jackson Arnold, which placed Max and Mina's at number one on its list of the ten most unique ice cream parlors in the United States. The Travel Channel also counted the Kew Gardens Hills shop among the country's famous ice cream destinations, and the store has turned up as an answer on Hollywood Squares and in Trivial Pursuit.
“Max and Mina's was named number 1 of the top 10 unique ice cream parlors in America in Everybody Loves Ice Cream…”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
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