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There's A Blizzard Comin'! Manhattan's 1st Dairy Queen Opening On May 29th
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Jen Carlson
Published May 9, 2014
Modified May 29, 2014
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A young girl eating ice cream outside a Dairy Queen store in 1955. (Getty)
Soon you will no longer need to take a ferry to get your Blizzard fix—the first Manhattan Dairy Queen is opening on May 29th.
Word of the beloved chain arriving in Manhattan first came around Christmas last year, like a gift that promised to keep giving. Why is DQ so special? We asked Gothamist's managing editor John Del Signore, who explained DQ's significance while clicking through a rather painful slideshow documenting his younger years:
"I grew up in Pennsylvania, in a whorehouse. Closest I got to feeling wanted was from a girl who made me go through her john's pockets. If I collected more than a dollar, she bought me an Oreo Cookies Blizzard. And I would eat it alone in my room with great ceremony, feeling like a normal fat kid."
The DQ—which will feature a Big Apple Blizzard on the menu, as well as chicken salads, burgers, and other sweet and savory treats—will be open inside of a 2,500-square-foot space at 54 West 14th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.
The company has been documenting their move in to the new space on Facebook.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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