After 77 years in one family, Syracuse’s oldest fish fry is closing
Updated Apr 06, 2021;
Posted Apr 06, 2021
Owner Bill Easterly at Jim's Fish Fry on Wolf Street in 2014, when the place was 70 years old.Don Cazentre
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After 77 years, it looks like 2021 is the last hurrah for the Easterly family at Jim’s Fish Fry.
Jim’s, at 1248 Wolf St. across from the Crouse-Hinds plant, will serve its last fish on Friday, April 16. It’s listed for sale as a “turnkey” restaurant operation.
It has been run by the Easterly family since 1944. That likely makes it the oldest specialty fish fry — certainly the oldest in one family — in the immediate Syracuse area. It was one of the places that made haddock a Central New York tradition, especially on Fridays in Lent.