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Posted by sarahspy • 3/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: big apple, brooklyn, new york, nyc

Any others from one of the five boroughs?

sarah
sarahspy.blogspot.com

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10/26/08

Bobbyboy

Yep, a Brooklynite here

Nice blog!
Cheers!

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10/26/08

TonyB

Where is the best NY pizza?

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10/26/08

Rozie818

Yo, you kidding me or what? Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, the outer edges of Boro Park.

Tony B
The best pizza will be debated for ever, just like the best egg creams used to be.

But some say Difara's is best slice
you can see video here
ilovethecook.com/

But best squares is Vic's on Kings Highway and west 7th street.

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1. 10/26/08
  
  TonyB
  
  @Rozie818, how do you get to Difara's from Manhattan? The subway?
  
  What 3 things would you say are Must Do things when visiting NYC for a couple of days.
2. 10/26/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  Husband says "jump off the Brooklyn Bridge" and that takes care of the other two... :o) (he's from Manhattan)
  
  I say:
  
  1. Empire State Building
  2. See a broadway play
  3. Pastrami sandwich from either Stage or Carnegie deli
3. 10/26/08
  
  TonyB
  
  I like your husband. LOL
  
  What's good on broadway?
4. 10/26/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  @TonyB
  
  Here's a good link...
  
  www.playbill.com/index.php
5. 10/26/08
  
  PotatoChef
  
  You can get a pastrami (my favorite) sandwich out here in Las Vegas at the Stage Deli. I also like the knishes..
10/26/08

BennyGreenberg

A brooklyn boy here -

Spumoni Gardens in Bklyn?
Rays in the Village?

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1. 10/26/08
  
  TonyB
  
  BG - I don't know. Where? Nine, GoodKnife and I will be in NY for 3 days next week. They LOVE pizza and DUMPLINGS.
2. 10/26/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  dumplings...you're going to Chinatown?
10/26/08

Sonnenblumen

Is Smyth & Wolensky still offering great NY steaks?

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10/26/08

PotatoChef

Orginally from the Bronx.....but I remember we used to look at Brooklyn when we drove through...

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10/26/08

mikeny07

Pizza was invented in New York and just eaten by Italians at first. Then everyone started eating it. So the best pizza nationwide is in New York.

I am from Brooklyn and Italian! I don't remember the best pizza here. It is though in NYC. I don't recall the name. It was on the Travel channel once I think.

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10/26/08

mikeny07

I believe this is the place.

www.gayot.com/restaurantpages/NewYorkInfo.php?tag=NYRES991088&code=NY

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10/26/08

PotatoChef

I was in El Paso the other day and had a really great pizza. So even though New York had the first pizza...and still some really great pizzas..you can find great pizzas all over the country.

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1. 10/26/08
  
  TonyB
  
  NY pizza is exceptional.
2. 10/26/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  We have a pizza place in Alexandria that's comparable to the NY pizza we've had there. Only thing is, they overbake it, so you have to order it "lightly baked" then it's perfect...cheese swimming in a great sauce and it's foldable!
10/26/08

mikeny07

But when the Italians came here from Italy, they lived in NYC and opened the pizza shops there. The first pizza store in the country started there. I would go where it all started first.

The same as going to Chinatown in NYC for the best Chinese food. NYC is where most people migrated to when they came here. That is why the food is so good.

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10/26/08

TonyB

Why are people so passionate about pizza?

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1. 4/01/09
  
  ShopperDiva
  
  it's just that good and simple!
10/26/08

mikeny07

I think pizza is a great food. Have you ever heard anyone getting tired of pizza? It is also the art of cooking it. You have so many places that make pizza that looks and taste like cardboard, when you hit the best one, it is really great.

If you have never had it before, try meatball pizza when you go. I told a friend once to try it that never had it before, it was like she was in heaven ha. I am sure that place I mentioned above makes a great meatball topping pizza.

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10/26/08

Rozie818

Tony take the D train to ave J walk to corner and your there.
Then you can take the bus to bay parkway and 68th street walk a few blocks over to Kings highway and have a few squares at Vic's.

3 must see things in NY
1) If your there for the holidays see the tree at rock center
2) central park
3) get tickets for Letterman

First Pizza in city was...
in 1897 an Italian immigrant reinvented a Napoletana staple food into one of the worlds most eaten foods. New York City was the birth place of New York style pizza. During the year of 1905, Lombardi's was licensed by the City of New York, becoming America's First Pizzeria.

Over 100 years and still coveted as one of the Best Pizzeria's in the United States. Highly regarded and rated as the Best of New York , a City of Pizzeria's.

# Address: 32 Spring St
# Telephone: 212-941-7994

For dumpling try
www.dumplingman.com/

For Burgers go to Jackson Hole
64th street of 2nd ave next to Manhattan eye and ear hospital.
It's a down stairs spot.

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1. 10/26/08
  
  TonyB
  
  @Rozie...thank you!!! If the theGoodKnife stays true to form he will be posting photos of everything he eats next week.
4/01/09

LisaNYC

Yup.....East Village!

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4/01/09

ShopperDiva

yep, Brooklyn in the house!

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4/02/09

DollinNYC

Another East Villager here!

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4/03/09

Bassagirl

From Bronx World to Queens!

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4/04/09

EINSTEIN13

brooklyns in the house

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4/04/09

EINSTEIN13

gump your a genius my mamma always told me life is like a box of chochlates,u no the rest

dont worry aboutttttt it
for get-a-bout-ittttt

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