Chip City Set To Open New Carnegie Hill Location In Cookie Mania

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Move over cupcakes — the Big Apple is all-in on big, gooey cookies.

Chip City is set to open a new Upper East Side location in Carnegie Hill on East 96th Street and Madison Avenue sometime in June, founder Peter Phillip told Patch, the second neighborhood location of the growing cookie biz.

That new shop is just one of the one of 19 stores the cookie shop currently has under construction across the country, more than doubling their current 18 stores in the tri-state region.

And by the end of the of 2024, Phillips says the cookie shop he started in a 250-square-foot Astoria storefront with a high school friend back in 2017 will have 100 locations across the country.

"We started with something very small. And it's grown into something getting pretty big," Phillips said.

"It's pretty wild," he added.

Cookie shops have popped up all over the city, seemingly ushering in a new era of treat sensation not seen since the cupcake craze, but Phillips says Chip City offers something that others don't.

"We're a big, gooey, five-and-a-half ounce cookie," Phillips said.

Chip City has created over 50 cookie varieties, with six rotating flavors offered weekly — chocolate chip is always on the menu — and the cookies are typically bought up in under an hour after leaving the oven.

Phillips, who operated and still runs a construction company, says he still can't believe how much success they've had baking cookies.

"If you told me six years ago I was going to be full-time in the cookie making business I would have looked at you and like you were a little crazy," he said. "So life has its own plans for you."