Eater: Melba’s, a Harlem staple, is opening in Grand Central
Melba Wilson of Melba’s in Harlem. Credit: PC Battman/Melba’s
Melba Wilson learned a thing or two about saving money from her South Carolina grandmother, starting when she was 21 years old, when she’d deposit holiday money, birthday checks, and whatever was left after paying bills. Many years later, she counted over $300,000, “at First National Mattress Savings Bank as we jokingly called it,” she says.
It was enough to open her first Melba’s location in Harlem, at 300 W. 114th Street, near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, in 2005. This spring, she will roll out her third location — following a fast-casual concession stand that opened in Newark’s Prudential Center last year — this time at the mainstage of Midtown: in Grand Central.