Another Reporter “Discovers” The Famous Halal Cart on 53rd & 6th
The NYT City Room blog revisits the topic of the late night line at the Famous Halal Cart on 53rd & 6th, and seems to be in awe of how it has led to “daytime halal carts now outside office buildings and nighttime vendors close to nightclubs, theaters and hotels” (as if this was a recent phenomenon.) It doesn’t mention that you can avoid that late night line, by crossing the street to the SE corner of 53rd & 6th for the exact same food- but Shendy’s, the 2nd place finisher in Street Meat Palooza 2, did get a big shout out from one of the “clubbers” interviewed on the line:
“I’ve tried both carts; 53rd is really the touristy spot,” Mr. Amos said. “52nd is the spot for the people who just couldn’t wait, the starving guy. I’m usually starving.”
The article also mentions that there are other carts drawing crowds these days, like 28th and Madison Avenue, 40th and Seventh Avenue (really?), 45th and Sixth Avenue (uh, do you mean Kwik Meal?) and 52nd between Ninth and Tenth Avenues.
Related:
Debunking the Myths of 53rd & 6th, the Most Famous Halal Intersection in New York City
Posted by Zach Brooks at 2:00 pm, August 11th, 2009 under Famous Halal Guys on 53rd & 6th.
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The 53rd/6th location is for people who have discovered that the longer you wait for food, the better it tastes. Like myself.
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Hunger _is_ the best spice.
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NYT makes me want to pluck my eyes out.
Can there possibley be worst reporting and second hand, hell, 10th hand, NEWS ?????
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Street carts are starting to “jump the shark” as they say. Damn you NYT shut up!
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28th & Madison is always busy with cabbies on break getting their food.
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There was a time not too long ago that any mention in the media of midtown lunch carts would make you happy. Now as your fame and influence have grown, do I sense some snarkiness in your characterizations of the reporting by the gray lady?
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STEVE THANK YOU….i love that truck…
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Zach – time to sell the site, pack up, move to Florida, get bored, open new site (suggest earlybirdspecial.com), repeat, count money, get old, die.
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I think Wayne has found his next calling. Food Blog Consultant. The way things are going (as evidenced by Freak of the Week) there is a large client base in need of harvesting.
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No love for the 53rd and 6th daytime cart? They suck.
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flatrock… you are right but sadly the only thing cheaper that the food on these blogs are the bloggers themselves
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@stan – true enough! although this particular article bothered me just a bit, because I feel like so many people have written the exact same article so many times, and the tone is like “look at this crazy new thing!”
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Wayne, im starting my own anti-foodblogger blog……………..headupmearse@worldpress.com.
1st topic….we want Mr Cutlets hung by his bollocks from Brooklyn Bridge.
Im open to ideas.
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There have been carts at night on that corner for ages. I worked at 1301 Ave of the Americas from 1990-94 and I remember carts being out there at night 15+ yrs ago.
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Rudy, I’ll bring the fishing line! Any fat putz who calls himself “Mr Cutlets” deserves to be strung up for that alone. His annoying egotistical ‘tude is just a bonus reason.
BTW, anyone know what’s up with the cart at 28th and Madison mentioned in the article?
AAAAAAAND if the SE location is crowded, go to the 53rd and 7th location!