NY Brooklyn news

• How one native New Yorker spent two days in Chicago

  09-10-2017 20:34
  All photos: David Chiu
  Speaking as a hardened and cynical native New Yorker, I often get irritated by tourists who visit the Big Apple–the ones who congest midtown streets, gawk at vendors in Chinatown like they’re circus oddities, and are painfully slow to figure out what they want to eat while waiting on line. That’s why I try to avoid to tourist hot spots like the Empire State Building, the Met and MoMA, unless there’s a special exhibition going on. I’ve only don
  
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• Jalapa Jar wants to replace your bagel with breakfast tacos

  09-10-2017 18:51
  Jalapa Jar is just one of the many small food businesses in Brooklyn with big dreams. Their ambitions, though, extend beyond simply building a salsa empire. They want to change the way New Yorkers eat breakfast, and supplant the staid bagel with spicy breakfast tacos.
  “We can’t knock the New York staple,” says owner Tommy Byrnes. “But we hope to convert New Yorkers from the bagel.”
  Jalapa Jar’s new shop at 384 Schermerhorn Street, near Atlantic Terminal and th
  
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