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New York Art Museums and Ice CreaM

Shops: A Guide to Perfect Pairings

By Andrew Russeth

In April 2019, Sugar Hill Creamery collaborated with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden on a flavor called Golden Chai, which was just the latest in a string of intriguing offerings that husband-and-wife Nicholas Larsen and Petrushka Bazin Larsen (an alum of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the Laundromat Project) have been cooking up since 2017. Other gems—with names that exhibit Duchamp-worthy wordplay—are…

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Grub Street: Meet the Harlem Couple That Chased Their Dream to Open NYC’s Most Charming New Scoop Shop (August 7, 2016)

By Sierra Tishgart

At some point, everyone fantasizes about dropping everything to open an ice-cream shop, a small place where the main concern is whether there’s enough salted caramel on hand to get through a busy Saturday night. Very few people actually do it, of course, but the city’s newest shop is exactly that kind of project. Nick and Petrushka Larsen are the couple behind Sugar Hill Creamery…

amNew York: Sugar Hill Creamery aims to foster sweet connections among Harlemites (July 11, 2019)

By Courtney Iseman

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…