{"id":135401,"date":"2026-02-16T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135401\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:48:07","slug":"former-staten-island-school-collabs-with-legendary-nyc-cookie-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135401\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Staten Island school collabs with legendary NYC cookie stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X4NRCBZNNJASVCU554YKABCBPQ\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A former Staten Island school is collabing with one of New York City\u2019s most popular cookie stores. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DZHD73OJMVHEDHOFXIU3QK22P4\">St. John\u2019s University, which shuttered its Staten Island campus in 2024, has its very own Johnny Thunder-wich cookie sandwich available at Chip City locations in New York City and Long Island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7LAIP62UBFBQZNJKZKIKKGKLOI\">The cookie is inspired by Johnny Thunderbird, the university\u2019s red-feathered mascot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MRZU6ZBZH5CJNC5AJWJXEIIJDI\">Chip City posted pictures of the red velvet cookies sandwiching \u201crich chocolatey filling\u201d that has \u201cgame-day energy in every bite.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DWFKBWQAHBHCFNZ4O2MDGGGNEU\">\u201cPull up, rep the Red Storm, and grab yours before they\u2019re gone,\u201d Chip City\u2019s Facebook post said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UBMRSQWJQJH27IYIUYOMBRJSRM\">In a twin post to Instagram, the official St. John\u2019s Red Storm account aptly commented a red circle and a storm cloud to represent the university\u2019s athletic teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QG2UTY4E4JE25A662W563RFH6U\">St. John\u2019s University\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team is sitting in second place in the Big East conference at the time of writing after beating the Providence College Friars on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6WLG5OE5QJDU7NPFM5DIPHONJY\">Chip City started not far from where St. John\u2019s University is located today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UHOT2SP77ZHP7IICJDEDFXPF6I\">\u201cBorn in Astoria, Queens in July 2017, Chip City began as a hobby between two childhood friends as they sought to recreate the simple taste of their childhood. What began as a fun challenge to see who could create the best cookie turned into the Chip City we know and love today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/chipcitycookies.com\/own-a-chip-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the store\u2019s website said.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QZ3ENCXPBRDRTGSVQDU2BF5WSY\">In less than a decade, Chip City grew into a beloved bakery that rotates 164 cookie flavors weekly at their 46 locations nationwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/chipcitycookies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A former Staten Island school is collabing with one of New York City\u2019s most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-135401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}