Visitors shame a real New Yorker

... to the special, hidden treasures this great city offers. I made a list. From the big-splurge restaurants to the Chinatown bargains to the dive bars. From free Shakespeare in Central Park to the outdoor concerts in Prospect Park. From the Times... ...

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Restaurant Review: At elan, Downtown-Dining Pioneer David Waltuck Dates Himself

If you'd asked me a decade or so ago to identify the most likely survivors from the generation of "superstar" chefs who roamed the city's fine-dining landscape like dinosaurs before the great gourmet apocalypse, David Waltuck would have been right at the top of the list. After all, he was incorporating fusion ingredients from the markets in Flushing and Chinatown into his cooking while David Chang and Danny Bowien were still shooting spitballs in grade school.

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Martin Scorsese Presents Revenge of the Green Dragons, in Theaters 10/24

Based on Frederick Dannen's electric New Yorker article that chronicled the underworld of Asian-American gang life in 80's and 90's New York City From Andrew Lau, Director of INFERNAL AFFAIRS which Martin Scorsese remade into Academy Award winning THE DEPARTED, Revenge of the Green Dragons hits theaters October 24th, 2014. In the vein of crime classics like MEAN STREETS and INFERNAL AFFAIRS, REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny and Steven who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons".

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Watch This Spellbinding Sushi Time-Lapse from the Frontlines at Nobu

... my staff members. When I am in New York, I don't eat much Japanese street food. I eat with friends and go out to Chinatown or for Italian-salad and simple pasta in a light pomodoro sauce is my favorite. I think New Yorkers are very adventurous ...

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Pho Vietnam 87: A Cut Above Chinatown's Vietnamese Restaurants

A friend who grew up in Hanoi lamented the state of Vietnamese food in New York. "Sometimes it looks the same, but it never tastes the same."

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Battle sizzles for NYU dumpling demand

... buy dumplings, two spots have become favorites. Vanessa's Dumpling House, having locations near Union Square, in Chinatown and in Williamsburg, is easily accessible. Upon walking inside the various locations, customers are greeted with a completely ...

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Bus in Delaware crash was taking tourists back to N.Y.

The tour bus company named by police as involved in a crash in Delaware on Sunday afternoon that killed two people, had been stopped by federal agents for inspections 30 times since August 2012. Bus company in Del.

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Batman prequel 'Gotham' doesn't need a superhero

... But the producers' best decision of all was to film "Gotham" in the real-life Gotham City - at locations like Chinatown and Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, and at Brooklyn's Steiner Studios. "When you're shooting a scene with New York City in the ...

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Glen Rock man creates block-by-block guide to New York

... the neighborhoods you'll learn about in the book: * Little Fuzhou (Downtown, East Broadway). This is the part of Chinatown the tourists mostly don't see, inhabited by immigrants from the Fujian Province. "If you're not Chinese and you're walking ...

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Now, pizza with your gelato

... music from singing waiters along with Italian food in a supper-club atmosphere. Last month, Berarducci sold to Chinatown restaurateur Kim Hyunh, who has changed the name to Cibo Ristorante Italiano . No relationship to the wine bars at Philadelphia ...

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Table Talk: Now, pizza with your gelato

... music from singing waiters along with Italian food in a supper-club atmosphere. Last month, Berarducci sold to Chinatown restaurateur Kim Hyunh, who has changed the name to Cibo Ristorante Italiano . No relationship to the wine bars at Philadelphia ...

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Looking back at more innocent times before 9/11

I grew up in the '60s and '70s, 25 miles west of Manhattan, with the New York skyline etched in my brain. The lights never went out, and when you came to a certain point on Route 3 East from New Jersey, no matter how many times you had made the trip before, you felt a certain rush as it appeared, first as a hazy outline and gradually brighter and more spectacular, glistening against the sky.

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Saison vets to open casual S.F. spots

... a mile from Skenes' Saison headquarters. And though Skenes has several local Chinese restaurants he enjoys - like Chinatown gem Z&Y - he says that the quick-service genre lacks good options, especially downtown. Menu items will be under $10, and ...

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Andy Ricker to open Pok Pok LA and Pok Pok Phat Thai in Chinatown

... Plaza at 727 Broadway. "Pok Pok is indeed coming to L.A.," Ricker said. "I have been spending a lot of time in Chinatown lately and am very taken with the vibe down there, and am very excited to be part of what I hope becomes a bit of a blossoming ...

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Wire: Food at the New Yorker Festival; Cochon's NYC Pop-Up

The annual New Yorker festival October 10 to 12 ) has finally unveiled its 2014 line-up, and as per usual, several of the highbrow events have a culinary focus. Among them: Writer Calvin Trillin will host a dinner/conversation with the team behind Russ & Daughters ; three New Yorker editors host "critic-curated" dinners at secret locations; and an open-day talk focuses on counterfeit wine.

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'Girls' Star Andrew Rannells on His Unlikely...

If a cell phone rings in the audience: "It will just be a slew of profanity. Maybe I'll try to answer" Andrew Rannells had five full days to rehearse before he started performances of Hedwig and the Angry Inch .

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'Girls' Star Andrew Rannells on His Unlikely 'Hedwig' Inspiration, Allison William's 'Peter Pan' Wig

If a cell phone rang in the audience: "It will just be a slew of profanity, maybe I'll try to answer" Andrew Rannells had five full days to rehearse before he started performances of Hedwig and the Angry Inch . That's it.

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Eats beat: Fried chicken, Cuban-Chinese fusion and spelt vodka

Fried-chicken lovers now have two more spots in New York where they can indulge. Former "Top Chef" contestant Chaz Brown has opened Seoul Chicken, an East Asian chicken wing bar on the Lower East Side at 71 Clinton St. Diners can pick between Korean- and Southern-fried with a choice of sauces, like Szechuan peppercorn and sea salt, habanero kimchi or gochujang Buffalo.

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Pugh stuns NY with immersive art

Critically acclaimed English designer Gareth Pugh promised New York Fashion Week a different experience and outdid himself with a startlingly innovative show light years from the traditional runway. There was no model in the flesh.

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English designer Pugh stuns NY with...

Critically acclaimed English designer Gareth Pugh promised New York Fashion Week a different experience and outdid himself with a startlingly innovative show light years from the traditional runway. Dancers perform at the Lexus Design Disrupted: Gareth Pugh presentation during MADE Fashion Spring 2015, at Pier 36 in New York, on September 4, 2014 - by Albert Urso There was no model in the flesh.

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SmartTRAVEL: Manhattan

... a regular line. The best thing about this place is that it is bustling at all hours of the day. Where to SHOP Chinatown Don't expect to find the bargain of a lifetime on Chinatown's crowded streets, but there's always great browsing. Here you'll ...

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The Sweet (and Not So Sweet) Smell of a Gentrifying New York

... rather than the more vague impressionistic descriptions favored by Noho-based parfumier Bond No. 9, whose Chinatown scent captures "the emerging superpower energy with the avant-garde cachet of downtown New York." By contrast, OAK's Bushwick scent ...

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What makes a real New Yorker?

... requirement. But is Teachout a true New Yorker? Does she ride the subway? Can she find her way to Coney Island, Chinatown or the Cloisters? How does she handle the maddening F train schedule on weekends? Is she familiar with L & B Spumoni Gardens? ...

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