20 Blocks
Sandwich shop · 1 location · Manhattan: East Village
Two owners with no restaurant background, one from live events and one from the art world, spent three years getting here, running pop-up sandwiches in community gardens and giving the money back. The 20-seat East Village counter they opened in August 2026 is theirs outright.
The Big Picture
20 Blocks opened in August 2026 as one 20-seat East Village counter with six employees, so there is almost no public labor or environmental record yet. The only supplier it has named is the Brooklyn wholesale bakery that makes its bread. Jack August and Willy Corman own the shop outright, with no investor, parent company or franchise behind it, so it answers to nobody but the two of them.
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