[1][2][3] In 1979, the Riese Organization determined that the Lindy's trademark had been abandoned, and opened new restaurants, the last of which closed in February 2018.

[11][12][13] The cheesecake was immortalized in Guys and Dolls, where Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson sang its praises.

"[18] Jewish Mafia icon Arnold Rothstein claimed Lindy's as his favorite "office" and would stand on the corner, surrounded by bodyguards, and conduct business outside.

On the day that Rothstein was killed in 1928, the last place he visited before the murder was Lindy's and he received a phone call at Lindy´s.

[19] On April 5, 1956, Abraham Telvi, a mobster and hit man, attacked journalist Victor Riesel with acid, blinding him as he left the restaurant.

Groucho Marx was eating there with Dick Cavett and Woody Allen in the 1960s when they informed him that his work was appreciated by college students of the time.

Donald Fagen's song, "Good Stuff" (2012), from the album Sunken Condos, is a prohibition-era gangland fantasy that uses Lindy's as a location.