B&H Dairy Kosher Restaurant wasn’t particularly remarkable when it opened on Second Avenue in 1938. At the time, kosher dairy restaurants were commonplace in Manhattan and Brooklyn, particularly on the Lower East Side.
But now, B&H Dairy is something of an anomaly. In 2022, the Ashkenazi-oriented eatery was the only New York restaurant to receive a Backing Historic Small Restaurants grant from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Read here