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GRAFFITI
For the avid consumer, the choice of shops is vast, almost numbingly exhaustive, in this
heartland of the great capitalist dream. You can spend your dollars at big names like Bloom-
ingdale's or contemporary designers like Marc Jacobs, and visit boutiques full of vintage
garments or thrift stores with clothes priced by the pound.
Best places for bagels and lox
A bagel with cream cheese and lox is the city's classic bite, found all over at cafés, delis,
bagelries and speciality food shops - though best sampled from a Jewish “appetizing”
store (basically, a place that sells fish and dairy products) such as hundred-year-old,
family-owned
Russ & Daughter's
. Our other favourites include
Absolute Bagels
,
Barney
Greengrass
and
Zabar's
.
New York City comprises the central island of Manhattan along with four outer boroughs -
Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. To many, Manhattan is New York, and
