morton williams on broadway and 115th right by columbia u. yumsky!

Okay, I did it myself. Here is an incomplete map of stores reported by Gothamist readers to sell Manhattan Special.

It's delicious, but last time I looked there was some nasty preservative in it. Maybe sodium benzoate.

That's why I stopped drinking it. But very tasty.

NYCSniper, maybe I missed something. What the hell does it have to be with being cool? I thought it was about enjoying a special treat that many of us have fond memories of, are glad to be able to get again, and to be able to share it with friends who didn't grow up with it.

It was a special treat for me as a little girl in Brooklyn-- it was an adult kind of thing, since it wasn't too sweet. It goes great with pizza. I didn't see it for about thirty years. Now I can pick it up at the Foodtown on McDonald Avenue.

Gothamist should work these responses into a map; I fruitlessly looked for Manhattan Special in 20 places last time I was in NYC.

Bleecker St. Deli on Bleecker right off of 6th Ave.

Time out here people. The beverage is made in Brooklyn and they call it Manhattan? HUH?

last summer, when I saw that my supermarket (the Associated on 14th betw 1st & A) had it and that Trader Joe's had their own brand of coffee soda, I did my own side-by-side taste test (I love coffee soda, obviously). NO contest - Manhattan Special is far, far better. I think that it's probably the cane sugar - TJ's uses that crappy high fructose corn syrup. Search this out -it's really good.

It's definitely an acquired taste, but great in the summer when you don't want a hot coffee. In Jackson Heights at the Italian food store on 80th St. and 37th Ave. Also in Astoria at the Italian place up on 30th Ave. near 44th? 45th?

i used to live right across from the factory on manhattan ave in williamsburg. For a manhattan special and the best slice in town, hit up Carmines on Graham Ave b/t metropolitan and conselyea.

The Key Food at Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights has it. Sounds to me like someone hired a publicist and distributor and is making a push.

decades ago the grocery stores in chinatown had them. it was pricey then as I'm sure it is now.

it's not for kiddies, its very very sweet and not very carbonated. I see they changed their label.

"Mingna" sorry for the mispelling.

Bagel Boy - 80th and 3rd in Bay Ridge.

Mingia they still keep Focacceria's open after the Spitzer thing?

The gas station on 4th ave and Douglas in Brooklyn, plus the Pizza joint with the good slices right by the r train at Union and 4th. The deli that has the corner entrance at John st downtown also has it.

I keeps my eyes open to spies it, ya see...

D&F Deli in Astoria on Broadway between 35th adn 36th street. Also makes amazing sandwiches.

If I wasn't making an effort to avoid eating crap I would still be drinking this.

Unfortunately it is little better than sugar-water.

sal's pizza on lorimer street. why not get a nice slice too, while you're there?

I think they occasionally have these at Lee's Deli outside the Q train Avenue H station.