Randy’s Donuts , the Los Angeles icon with the enormous rooftop ring you’ve seen in movies, TV and approximately a thousand Instagram posts, is finally touching down in NYC. The brand’s first East Coast shop opens in early December at 185 Bleecker Street, right on the corner of MacDougal in Greenwich Village, bringing a little West Coast sweetness to a neighborhood more associated with falafel , late-night students and decades of Village grit.

Founded in 1952, Randy’s became famous for the Inglewood flagship crowned by its giant doughnut—a piece of pop architecture that’s basically a billboard in pastry form. The original began as part of Big Donut, a quirky drive-in chain built around spectacle. Ownership shifted over the years (attorney Mark Kelegian took the helm in 2015), but the a

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