NEW YORK (WABC) -- The name behind a popular New York City staple has passed away. Nicholas Gray, the founder of Gray's Papaya, died at a hospital in Manhattan on Friday. He was 86. According to ...

Nicholas Gray, who 50 years ago founded the hot dog chain Gray’s Papaya that has expanded and shrunk its footprint across Manhattan in the ensuing decades, has died, the company announced on Instagram ...

The founder of Gray's Papaya, the stand that helped make the unlikely combination of hot dogs and papaya juice a staple for New Yorkers for decades, has died, his family announced. Nicholas A.B. Gray ...

Nicholas Gray, whose Gray’s Papaya hot dog shop has been a Manhattan fixture for 50 years, has died at 86. Gray died May 19 at a New York hospital from Alzheimer’s complications, the Wall St. Journal ...

Bored at his job as a stockbroker in the early 1970s, Nicholas Gray was open to alternatives. He spotted a Papaya King shop selling hot dogs and papaya juice in Manhattan and was impressed with the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Nicholas Gray, the ...