Have we lost CHOW MEIN forever? [EVG]
Hipsters in the Hamptons--they're called "Hampsters" and they have their own shelf at Bookhampton bookshop. [NYer]
"It's as if there's some unwritten regulation that every corner of the city, from Times Square to Coney Island, must have an Apple store and a Shake Shack. And people seem to want this sameness everywhere. We've become a city of people afraid of originality and the unknown, like tourists who go to Paris and eat at Burger King." [AMNY]
Joe Liberatore, "the last of the original 117 food merchants who first opened in 1940" on Arthur Avenue, has passed away. [Grub]
What's it like to get old in NYC? [Restless]
Read all about the original "Panorama of New York City, a 3,000-foot-long painting depicting the streets, residents, and sights of lower Manhattan." [CP]
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On W34 St between Eighth and Seventh
ReplyDeleteAve there is K-Mart, with a pedestrian walk way connecting
34 and 33 St.
When I first moved to NYC in the
late 70's, there was no KMart there, however, there used to be a chinese
restaurant with a fantastic old school Chow Mein neon sign there.
Walking past it on a rainy night, it was very noirish.
Does anyone remember this, or even better yet, have a photo?
You gets no bread with one meatball....
ReplyDeleteThat quote by Jeff Rosen associated with the I store/shake shack story is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What they ought to do is open an I store/shake shack in westchester then all the kids won't even have to go as far as GCT. Really?!?!?!?! How does that dude have a job saying stuff like that. On the other hand maybe it will act like a fly trap and keep all the yunnies in one place.
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ReplyDeleteJean Shepherd warned about Creeping Meatballism in 1957!
LES meatballs shops are for those people who loves to eat this kind of stuff.Specially those kids at school,and so,as far as I know they do offer kids menus for after class munchies.
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