The Best Pastries on the Upper East Side | Eater NY

"I have fond childhood memories of Greenberg’s — my father bringing home 22-cent fudgy brownies, my mother the sticky, caramel-shellacked schnecken for breakfast, and my grandmother buying small layer cakes — so it pained me to see it changed beyond recognition: the once-thin buttery cookies are pallid and dusty in dingy plastic, the brownies and decorated cakes no longer resemble what they used to be, and the shop now leans into hyped rainbow black-and-whites (which took off after Ina Garten praised them) rather than the classics. The schnecken survives, but trying both the original and the mini felt like the opposite of a Proustian madeleine — a reminder that things aren’t what they were." - Charlotte Druckman