3 (?) generation Italian grocery store on Houston. amazing handmade pasta, the zucchini cake ice cream is fantastic, snacks, drinks, and other Italian provisions galore.
my dad (raised in jackson heights) has been going to these spots since the late 50’s
vincent’s is all about the steamed calamari, mussels, fried shrimp and hot red sauce
ferrara is cannoli town
I work on a college campus where we have this statue of a rat with giant balls and it has become a regular phenomenon for students/people to offer their vapes to the ball rat. It is both so silly and so beautiful to me.
Give me an everyday object that looks like a critter any day of the week. We don’t have art deco intricacy but we do have telephone booths shaped like dolphins!
