Tag: nyc

No Passport Required Queens

In “Queens, NYC” host Marcus Samuelsson heads to the New York borough to learn more about the Indo-Guyanese community’s culture, history, and food. In Queens’s Richmond Hill neighborhood, Samuelsson visits roti shops and bakeries like Singh’s Roti Shop to make and eat classic Guyanese treats like pine tarts, pepperpot, doubles, and plait bread. He visits the temple canteen inside a neighborhood mandir, makes Caribbean-style roti at home with a Guyanese family, and plays in a cricket match, followed by a meal of bake and saltfish, coconut pastries called salara, and more.

Camping near NYC

All of these campgrounds are no farther than 3 hours from NYC, because you know that really means 4-5 hours.

East of Edenworks

The Edenworks fish and greens ecosystem farm in Brooklyn uses broad-spectrum LED lighting for continuous production indoors, all year long. The microgreens are in floating aquaponic containers, fertilized by the microbially-digested fish waste from below, and they thrive on this nutrient stream. Results: the greens and fish are quite yummy and popular at the local Whole Foods.

  • 90% of American seafood is imported and 40% is mislabeled (!)
  • Fish are 40x more efficient than cows at converting feed to body mass
  • Over 50% of all fish meals come from aquaculture ($160B globally)
  • Edenworks’ aquaponic microbiome improves conversion of nitrogen to plant yield by 18x over indoor hydroponics

Navy Yard Expansion

Currently, the Navy Yard has 60 buildings under lease. The first phase of growth at the Navy Yard will be driven by 5 cornerstone projects, encompassing 250K m2 of space either in development or just finished developing: The Green Manufacturing Building, currently home to New Lab, Crye Precision and Brooklyn Roasting Company (800 jobs), Building 77 (3000+ jobs), Dock 72, a private joint venture where WeWork will be located (4000 jobs), the expansion of Steiner Studios (2000 jobs), and Admiral’s Row site, which will be anchored by a Wegman’s grocery store (1200 jobs).

EV Chinese Dining

In the East Village, you can now get Hunan-inspired mifen rice noodles, Cajun-Chinese spicy crawfish boils at $30 per Kg, Hong Kong-style clay pot rice, and homey bowls of Taiwanese beef noodles — all within the same 1km radius. And most of these restaurants weren’t even here just 2 years ago.

  • Han Dynasty
  • Tim Ho Wan
  • Mimi Cheng’s Dumplings
  • The Bao
  • Szechuan Mountain House
  • Clay Pot NYC
  • Drunken Dumpling
  • MáLà Project
  • Hunan Slurp Shop
  • Ho Foods

Bushwick Night Market

You should come hungry to Happy Family Night Market. The 1-day Bushwick festival promises to be a vibrant celebration of Asian-American culture through food, film, discussions and more.

Let’s start with just some of the menu; so far there’ll be chicken choila with aachar and puffed rice and a vegetarian momo from While in Kathmandu. Bunker Vietnamese will serve Smallhold mushroom tempura, red wattle pork skewer, grilled corn with scallion oil and a coconut peanut topping. Randwiches will bring adobo pulled pork sliders, Shikampur-style lamb meatballs in a rich gravy, and potato-croquette-style balls with Maggi ketchup from Taj Mah Balls. Honey’s will be putting on a specialty cocktail made with umeboshi plums from Ozuké.

Bronx Night Market

In the mood for some delicious food, artisanal products, and live music? Head on up to the Bronx’s first-ever Night Market, at Fordham Plaza this Saturday from 16-21. Following the lead of the Queens International Night Market, which opened in 2014, the Bronx Night Market will feature more than 40 food vendors, as well as a variety of art and merchandise vendors.

Grimm

After 5 years of wandering from host to host, peddling its award-winning and very beloved beers, local beer brand Grimm Artisanal Ales opens a brewery and taproom in East Williamsburg. In this new brewery at 990 Metropolitan Ave., between Morgan Avenue and Catherine Street, owners Lauren and Joe Grimm will serve more than 10 drafts, bottle-conditioned and oak-aged sour beers, and some local wine, cider, and soda. Alongside the popular beers will be Middle Eastern food from nearby Samesa, with dishes such as a chicken shawarma melt and pumpernickel pita with dip made with Grimm beer.