90th & Lexington [NE Corner] (March 2014)

A delivery man strolls past Corrado Bread & Pastry on the Upper Eest Side. Among other delicacies, Corrado offers one of NYC's top 6 best baguettes (according to Cornell University professor and preeminent French-bread scholar Steven L. Kaplan [NY Mag]), from sister bakery, Long Island City's Pain d’Avignon.       [[Click to Expand]]

110th & 3rd Ave [SW Corner] (April 21, 2012)

The Dominican "El Chevere Chuchifrito" (formerly Puerto Rican "El Coqui") serves "the best roast chicken in the city," according to one Yelper. Some call the neighborhood “SpaHa,” for Spanish Harlem. To paraphrase HarlemWorld:  These blasphemous epithets are invented by the ruling class in order to invade our ethnic ‘hoods and replace the locals with newer, richer settlers.

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