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Jahn's chain of ice cream shoppes once covered the NYC metropolitan area with a heady combination of lactose and sucrose. The first Jahn's was opened way back in 1897 in Mott Haven, Bronx by John Jahn, which (dissapointingly) is pronounced "John JAN." His three children, Elsie, Frank and Howard, opened Jahn's in Jamaica, Richmond Hill, and Flushing respectively.
Jahn's is most celebrated for its Kitchen Sink sundae, which was large enough to serve six. There were also the Boilermaker, the Awful Awful, the Suicide Frappe, Screwball's Delight, the Joe Sent Me, the (#”&’$?/) Special, and the Flaming Desire, five scoops of ice cream topped by a flaming sugar cube.





The Jahn's at Richmond Hill, on Hillside Avenue just north of Myrtle, opened a short time after the RKO Keith's theatre opened in 1929. It closed Thanksgiving weekend 2007. It joins other former Jahn's branches at Mott Haven, Jamaica, Flushing, Marine Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay, Fordham, Forest Hills, Great Neck, Rockville Centre, Eastchester, East Meadow, West Islip, Union Twp. and Fair Lawn, NJ, and Coral Gables and Sunny Isle, FL.

There is only one location open thats at 81-04 37th Ave., Jackson Heights, Queens.

I remember going to the Jahn's in the Bronx on special occasions, remember the Kitchen Sink G*d wonder what all that ice cream did to our arteries, I don't think I could atempt to eat one now..........goodbuy Jahn's.

WHAT!? OH NO

That was the best! I used to schlepp there from the Bronx on the J train; it was so good.

Is nothing sacred?!

Michael

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