Chinatown Ice Cream Factory
Family-run Chinatown ice cream parlor · 2+ locations · NYC: Chinatown, Lower East Side
A Chinatown institution that never took outside money: Christina Seid runs the ice cream shop her father opened in 1978, a second generation behind the same counter. The family no longer owns the building, so the shop rents the storefront it made famous.
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Christina Seid owns and runs the Chinatown ice cream parlor her father opened in 1978, a second generation with no outside capital. As a two-shop operation it leaves little public labor or environmental record, and publishes no supplier list. The family answers to no investor, but it no longer owns the Bayard Street storefront it built its name in.
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