{"id":379370,"date":"2026-10-22T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379370\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:10:20","slug":"eddies-sweet-shop-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379370\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie\u2019s Sweet Shop &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. nominated Eddie\u2019s Sweet Shop at 105-29 Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills for historic status and stopped by on September 30, 2026, to celebrate the neighborhood\u2019s classic ice cream parlor garnering its official place on New York State\u2019s Historic Business Registry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eddie\u2019s Sweet Shop has been part of Forest Hills life since it opened in 1909 and was originally called\u00a0\u201cWitt\u2019s Ice Cream Parlor.\u201d\u00a0It\u00a0dates back to\u00a0the early days of the neighborhood, opening just three years after Forest Hills was named.\u00a0William Witt ran the shop until he retired and moved to Florida in 1967.\u00a0He sold it to the Citrano family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that same year, the Citrano family renamed it\u00a0\u201cEddie\u2019s Sweet Shop,\u201d\u00a0even though there was never\u00a0an Eddie. Today, the place is owned by Giuseppe (Joe) Citrano and his son Vito Citrano, and\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0kept the tradition going for generations. Their slogans:\u00a0\u201cTake your children to the place your grandparents had ice cream\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cA Forest Hills tradition for four generations\u201d\u00a0capture what makes the place so special.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie\u2019s Sweet Shop\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0just an ice cream shop;\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0part of Forest Hills\u2019\u00a0story.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0proud to recognize Giuseppe and Vito Citrano for keeping this landmark going and for protecting its history for the next generation,\u201d\u00a0Addabbo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/efZrfoCQ.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1868\" height=\"863\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senator Addabbo\u00a0presents a Historic Business Registry certificate to Vito Citrano, left, and his father Giuseppe (Joe) Citrano, the co-owners of Eddie\u2019s Sweet Shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. nominated Eddie\u2019s Sweet Shop at 105-29 Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills for historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-379370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379370","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=379370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}