(Jewish Group) Junior's, NYC's iconic Jewish cheesecake emporium, buys back guns to protect the city

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Junior’s, NYC’s iconic Jewish cheesecake emporium, buys back guns to protect the city it loves

When Alan Rosen, the third-generation owner of Junior’s Restaurant, read the headlines back in April about a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy who was shot and killed while eating in the backseat of a car, the only thing he could think was, “enough already.”

“I had limited options on what I could do — I’m in the restaurant business,” Rosen, 53, told the New York Jewish Week. “But I took it upon myself to do something. It was a tipping point.”

So, in between his regular workday at the famous restaurant and cheesecake bakery — which includes overseeing Junior’s original Downtown Brooklyn location, as well as outposts in Midtown Manhattan and Foxwoods Casino — Rosen contacted the mayor’s office to see what he could do to help prevent gun violence. After several phone calls, he was connected with the NYPD, then New York Police Foundation and, eventually, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

Ultimately, Rosen and Gonzalez collaborated on organizing a gun buyback event through the New York City Police Foundation. (Initially, Rosen had wanted to host the event in its uber-retro Brooklyn location, “before being informed that’s not how gun buybacks are run,” according to Grub Street, which broke the story.)

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1. If I were a billionaire, I'd buy back guns and ship them to Ukraine

Yay for Mr Rosen