If you have ever stood in line on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint for a doughnut and a coffee, you were standing inside something Donna Siafakas built. Siafakas, who ran Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop for 33 years, died on June 30, at 69. On July 8, the shop that felt like it would outlast everyone closed its doors so the block could grieve her.

A handwritten sign went up on the bakery door beneath a drawing of a dove: “To honor our beloved Donna.” Staff, family and customers used the day to pay tribute to the woman who helped make the shop a neighborhood landmark. The recipes and the reputation were the easy part to point at. Donna was the part people meant when they said they loved Peter Pan.

Peter Pan has served Greenpoint since the 1950s, but the version New Yorkers line up for now is the one Donna made. She took over the shop in 1993 and spent more than three decades turning a corner bakery at 727 Manhattan Avenue into a destination people fly in for. She and her husband, Christos, kept it a family business, their sons and Donna’s sister working the counter and the ovens, most of the case still made from the shop’s original recipes.