Tag: nyc restaurants
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Ukrainian Comfort Food in an East Village NYC Ghost Town
One advantage of being a New Yorker during the COVID-19 pandemic was the ability to travel around Manhattan with virtually no traffic along with the ability to park just about anywhere for free. My wife and I seized the moment and decided to visit Videogamesnewyork, a vintage gaming store in the East Village to repair…
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Halal Guys, The Hipster Boom and Listening to Kid Cudi in Late 2000s NYC
In the late 2000s, changes in NYC really started to take shape and humble eateries like the now infamous Halal Guys gyro stand started to gain popularity with more and more young people flocking to places like Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This was around the time I landed my first job/internship in Manhattan and started to get…
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Late Night Chinese Eats at NYC’s Wo Hop and Cam’ron’s ‘Purple Haze’
In the mid-2000s, I really started to push the limits of my driving when I decided to make regular trips to Manhattan for late-night Chinese meals at a restaurant called Wo Hop. A few brave friends would take this journey with me to Chinatown at least once a week, and we’d always have a soundtrack…
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