Sugar Hill Creamery co-owner Nick Larsen scoops strawberry-basil and blackberry-pistachio flavors. Photo Credit: Linda Rosier
Petrushka Bazin Larsen, an alum of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and her husband Nick Larsen opened Sugar Hill Creamery in 2017 (and were featured in The New York Times). AM New York profiled them and their ice cream shop this week as a part of their summer series on ice cream in New York City:
Thomforde’s ice cream shop and soda fountain stood on the corner of 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue from 1903 to 1983. Those who lived in Harlem during that time are probably aware of its status as a local gathering place.
Petrushka Bazin Larsen and her husband, Nick Larsen, learned about it from Harlemites in the years before the couple opened Sugar Hill Creamery in 2017.
Petrushka recalls neighbors saying they would frequent the shop after church or when they were out on a date.
“That’s what we wanted for Sugar Hill,” she says.