“Brooklyn makes the best pizza, but you can’t go wrong with Bronx Italian ice,” says Gene Raphael Miller, a filmmaker turned frozen dessert entrepreneur with his latest venture, Bronx Ice. The first two shops opened in Greenpoint (1048 Manhattan Ave.) and the Upper West Side (782 Amsterdam Ave.) in early August, after a pandemic-related pivot delayed Miller’s original plans to debut outside Yankee Stadium.
Miller, a born-and-raised Bronx native,…
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I can’t wait to try this, and I love this story.
Wait a minute. There was no place else in the Bronx for you to open Bronx Ice? You had to go to Brooklyn . WOW!!!
The article said you wanted to open in 161 next to the Stadium, but the Stadium didn’t open? Why not open in Fordham Road or 149 street. Why Brooklyn.