After a 90-year operation, Elmhurst Dairy in Queens, New York has ceased its dairy operation after citing a drastic decrease in customer demand.
Incorporated in the 1920s, Elmhurst Dairy had become established as one of the largest dairy manufacturers on the East Coast of the United States, supplying the metropolitan area of about seven million people.
CEO of the company, Henry Schwartz said the company has been operating at a high cost in recent years and he noted that, “Pasteurized fluid milk has sort of gone out of style, we are unable to go on without ongoing losses. There isn’t much room for our kind of business. I tried to keep this open because it was my Father’s plant and he asked me to.
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