This is the story of how a picture of one Joey Cupcakes came to be taken down.
It starts in October when the F.B.I. comes to the establishment, which has been on the same street corner in East Harlem for more than a century and where it seems as if even a court order can’t get you a reservation. They brought a search warrant and they left with the picture. They wanted it, an investigator later said, for a murder investigation.
