Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard

Very good ice cream! I love it ♥️

Not recommended - the ice and custard was not tasting good.

It’s always difficult to find an employee- and they never seem to know the recipes for anything on the menu. Today, when I walked up, there was a long line of people who were asking where the employees were. They walked out and disappeared into the back again. One of them returned, and was very slow to service customers. I ordered the strawberry shortcake concrete- which apparently is a mystery on what goes in it. She asked her colleague- who had to tell her where to find the ingredients. I told her that since I was trying to catch the ferry, that she didn’t have to blend it, since I was worried it would take even longer to figure out. I expected to receive strawberry flavor between 2 layers of custard with some type of graham cracker or crunchy aspect on top (it was called strawberry shor

THIS PLACE IS ABSOLUTELY FILTHY ABD DISGUISTINGGGG. I GOT AN ICEE AND IT HAD 2 not 1 ROACHES INSIDE OF IT. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED. I WILL BE REPORTING THIS RESTAURANT AND THEY NEED A HEALTH INSPECTION. I WILL SLANDER THIS LOCATION ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. JUST SEE THE DISGUSTING PICTURE BELLOW

I was worried that they weren’t participating in the free First Day of Spring ice, but they were! Made me happy since all the other NYC locations are still closed for the season. They didn’t advertise it or have the special cups, probably because it’s in a location with a lot of foot traffic and they didn’t want to cause a huge line, but they still were giving it to people who asked.