Serious Eats did a 62-photo slideshow of one of my favorite stores in NYC:
The soul of the Kalustyan’s operation. You may think you’ve seen Indian grocery stores, but until you’ve seen Kalustyan’s, you don’t really know the meaning of holy-crap-that’s-a-lot-of-spices.
“Let’s together agree on what Artichoke is. It’s like Shake Shack, really, if instead of perfect burgers, Shake Shack’s headline offering was huge piles of melted butter and cream on tasteless crackers. If instead of it being a pitch-perfect, living vision of the future of fast food, it was a bunch of cash cows satisfied with minting money as fast as they can, eager to turn their brand into a theme park, quietly waiting for their ridiculous house of hype to cave in on itself and hoping they make boat-money before it does. It’s no different from Shake Shack, except for the fact that instead of a $4.50 burger, there’s a $5 slice of pizza. Indeed, Artichoke is Shake Shack insomuch people are willing to wait on massive lines for three to five minutes of gustatory bliss. Although — sorry one more point of comparison — at Shake Shack there is a payoff and at Artichoke the only post-game emotion is the empty feeling that you have gotten a little fatter for no good reason.”
I’m glad to see train status above ground. Have these been put up anywhere aside from the 3rd ave L train (Manhattan-bound only)?
Seriously, these should be everywhere.
Crash Witnesses: NYPD Won’t Charge Cabbie Who Hospitalized Cyclist
Every kind of superlative and expletive applies here. I don’t know what else to say about the NYPD.
New Yorkers, let’s go and float on Doug Wheeler’s cloud installation.
This looks incredible.
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