Frozen Mulatta's

A pair of colorful umbrellas marks the corner storefront halfway up W 117th St. Frozen Mulatta’s, a frozen food store, occupies the space between a bodega and a walk-up clinic in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights. Walk-ins are welcome for grab-and-go desserts and packaged treats you can roll straight to the subway. (929) 338-2127 rings through a doorway crowded with local students and uptown shoppers balancing bags from nearby Trader Joe’s and Associated Supermarkets.

The spot stays busy after 3 p.m., when heat radiates off the pavement and the scent of roasting nuts from the carts on 116th drifts inside. It’s the kind of place where the signature paletas melt just enough on the walk home to leave sugar rings on sidewalk cracks. Grab a bag of mamey or guava chunks, pay at the counter, and keep going north toward the reservoir. A quick map view (https://www.google.com/maps/place?ftid=0x89c2f73ec94cd4ef:0x4ccc3c6f279700c7) pins the store right where 117th meets Broadway—useful after sundown when the streetlights cast long shadows across Morningside Park.