![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m a New Yorker through and through, and seeing the hardship in the city with the shutdown, we knew we needed to stay.” But then, the COVID-related exodus of others convinced the couple to stick it out. “There was a point where I was like, ‘Let’s just leave and start a new life,’” Cuscuna says. ![]() The “grow at all costs” strategy favored by co-founders Jackie Cuscuna and Brian Smith blew up, forcing the husband-and-wife team to file for bankruptcy in 2020 - just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in New York - and to eventually sell the company to an Oregon machining company for next to nothing. Then, with a shocking swiftness, it fell apart. Eventually, pints of Ooey Gooey Butter Cake and Nonna D’s Oatmeal Lace could be ordered and shipped anywhere in the country. Ample Hills became the official ice cream of Star Wars and Disney World. ![]() A lot more: Over the years, Ample Hills expanded to more than a dozen locations. Barely a week after the original, 950-square-foot store opened on Vanderbilt Ave., the New York Times reported on its products’ sold-out status, all of the ice cream bought up in mere days by eager Brooklynites. Jackie Cuscuna and Brian Smith will open the Social later this year.įor nearly a decade, Ample Hills Creamery was the Little Brooklyn Scoop Shop That Could. ![]()
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