Junior's Restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn, May 2008

Junior's is a restaurant at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn (386 Flatbush Avenue). The restaurant also has an outlet inside Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and one in the Times Square area. The restaurant was founded by Harry Rosen in 1950. According to the restaurant, it was named Junior's after Rosen's two sons, Walter and Marvin. In 1982, Governor Mario Cuomo declared May 27th as Junior’s Restaurant Day. According to GO Brooklyn, "At the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues in Downtown Brooklyn, there has been a diner run by the Rosen family since 1929. In 1950, the name was changed to Junior's, and it has been serving its famous cheesecake and other goodies ever since. The interior of Junior's was modernized in 1983 after a major fire in the restaurant. The diner was recently featured in the Brooklyn Public Library's children's book of Brooklyn landmarks, "Brooklyn Pops Up."

Rosen worked with Master baker, Eigel Peterson, on the Rosen family's recipe to create the cheesecake known today as "The World's Most Fabulous Cheesecake" based on a recipe that was in the Rosen family for three generations.

In 1981, when the restaurant caught on fire, a crowd of people watching the firefighters started chanting "Save the Cheesecake!" However, the fan base is not limited to Brooklynites. A Kuwaiti prince was known to have taken several Junior's cheesecakes back with him. The delight of critics, the cakes have been sold nation-wide through various outlets, including the television shopping network, QVC.

Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior's