Grays Papaya

Description

Industry               Fast food restaurant

Founded             1973; 51 years ago in New York City

Founder              Nicholas Gray

Number of locations     1 (2020)

Area served       New York City

Gray’s Papaya is a hot dog restaurant located at 2090 Broadway at 72nd Street in New York City. It had other locations, all of which had closed by June 2020. Gray’s Papaya is famous for its inexpensive high-quality hot dogs, considered among the best in New York City. They once sold for 50 cents each and, as of 2023, sell for $2.95.

The “papaya” in the name refers to the papaya fruit drink sold at the establishment. They also sell orange, grape, piña colada, coconut champagne and banana daiquiri fruit drinks, all of which are non-alcoholic.

Besides You’ve Got Mail and Sex and the City, Grey’s also showed up in the movie, For Love or Money. It was also featured in Down to Earth, Crossing Delancy, and (very briefly) Die Hard With A Vengeance. How I Met your mother in a scene where Ted plans the perfect New Years eve: five parties in three hours. Between parties, they make a pit stop for hot dogs.

In Seinfeld Kramer told Elaine he was going to get a hot dog at Papaya King