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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