New York deli culture is far from what it was, that much has been established, but the truth — the whole kosher truth — is still out there, for those willing to make the trek to neighborhoods like Riverdale, far away from Katz's, and the other Manhattan delis that have been lavished...
Butfor me, there's another thing that is so typical of the city - Taxis, the famous yellowNew York taxicabs.Taxicabs are everywhere in New York. In fact, there are 13,000 of them. Overhalf of all the cars you see in Manhattan are taxis. That's great if you need a cab. You...
However, whenever my waking mind's eye thinks back to my Manhattan childhood, the images it conjures up are never in Kodachrome; rather, they remain crisp black- and-white snapshots of a now-vanished city. Maybe this is due to the fact that my then-new neighbourhood, the Upper West ...
It's 6 p.m., and the dinner crowd is filling up the pleasantly cramped dining room of the 2nd Avenue Deli in Midtown Manhattan. That’s where self-styled “delicatatologist,” David Sax, chomps down on a huge homemade pickle, leans back in the sort of rickety wooden chair that is ...