@jannn1959
Are you sure? I chased down a couple of rumors about Velvet Freeze in EP to no avail. Unless this is a recent opening.
Long story short is that there is a place on Prospect in the Heights, behind the Subway, that has a meat sauce that is very, very close to the old Velvet Freeze hot dog. The owner of the new place worked and worked through trial and much error on a meat sauce to try and get it as close to the old Velvet Freeze recipe. How he did it I dont know and we will never know. But it gets really busy in there with customers looking for something like the old Velvet Freeze hot dog.