Nothing," Gomberg replied. Each vintage bottle is filled with just two things: New York City tap water, chilled to 42°, and a charge of carbon dioxide. Vintage seltzer bottles. CBS News ...

New York City water is triple-filtered, chilled, and carbonated. It's then pumped into vintage, hand-blown glass bottles, many of which bear the names of seltzer companies from decades past.

The history of the soda fountain is fascinating. Let’s take a trip down memory lane with these vintage soda fountain photos.

About a year ago, delivery company Brooklyn Seltzer Boys left Canarsie, Brooklyn — said to be the last seltzer factory in the city, where production of bubbles clanking in colorful glass bottles ...

The Brooklyn Seltzer Boys factory in East New York in 2017. The company’s owner, Alex Gomberg, then perhaps the city’s youngest seltzer man, bought Mr. Miller’s route that year.