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While the city of New York is well known for having some of the best food from around the world and some of the best restaurants in the country, well and for that matter the world, with some of the most famous chefs, it is also true that one of the most popular dining options for many tourists as well as residents is to find a great sandwich or slice of pizza. And even for the fine dining and cuisine snobbery individuals, it is difficult to resist a great sandwich or piece of pizza pie. This is frequently one of the first things guests in some of New York’s finest resorts try and seek out after they arrive in the city and settle into their comfortable rooms.

Tiny’s Giant Sandwich Shop offers some great deals and great sandwiches. There is a large selection of hot and cold sandwiches as well as a build your own option. ‘wichcraft is a sandwich shop that is gaining a variety of media attention and is getting recognized for its original sandwiches. There are a few locations throughout the city including a new one at the Lincoln Center. In addition, some of the best sandwiches can be found in the city’s local delis and bakeries.

Grandaisy Bakery in SoHo has some of the greatest pizza in the city. The bakery is reported to have a natural sweetness to the pizza and some of the specialties include the zucchini pizza as well as the pizza bianca. This is one of the testaments to the fact that you don’t have to go to Little Italy to find great pizza though you are more than welcome to if you choose. And it is also a given that you will find some superb pizza pies there if you do. Sal’s and Lil’ Frankie’s are two great options if you venture into Little Italy for your pizza. In addition, Sal’s offers pasta selections and other menu items. Lil’ Frankie’s offers wood oven pizza, pastas and has a great backyard garden for a beautiful outdoor dining experience.

If you are in New York City for the weekend, you don’t have to go far from one of the New York hotel Suites to find a Greenmarket; there are 8 around the Manhattan area. They vary with the days they are open and with what they specialize in as far as fresh produce goes.

The 97th Street Greenmarket is located on W 97th and Columbus and they are only open on Fridays from 8am to 2pm. 97th Street offers a unique opportunity to support local farmers while you shop in the shadow of a billion dollar corporation, Whole Foods, which has just moved in and is less than 500 feet away. The 97th Street Greenmarket sells meat, produce, dairy and plants at very reasonable prices.

Saturdays, you’ll be able to visit five greenmarkets; Union Square Greenmarket, the city’s flagship Greenmarket , customers not only have access to homegrown produce, meats, pretzels, cheese, jams and honey, but a chance to meet the local farmers, bakers and harvesters behind them – it’s open from 8am to 6pm and is located at 17th Street at Broadway; Inwood Greenmarket, represents 5 different farms where you can get the freshest produce, seafood, cheese, wine, baked good and the best turkey sausages, they are open from 8am to 3pm and located on Isham Street between Seaman and Cooper; Fort Greene Greenmarket, is a great open-air local produce market, but just adjacent to the greenmarket is the Artisan Market, which is perfect if you are looking for more than produce, open from 8am to 3pm and is located at Washington Park at DeKalb; McCarren Park Greenmarket, is part of the city’s green market program affording a quality, reasonably priced alternative to bland, expensive supermarket fare and are open from 8am to 2pm and is located at Union between Driggs and N12th Street, Greenpoint.

Sundays, you’ll be treated to Tompkins Square Greenmarket, is a small greenmarket, but it still offers fresh produce by local farmers, healthy breads, the best apples in the city, fish and a great selection of herb plants, they are open from 8am to 4pm and are located on E 7th and Avenue A; Jackson Heights Greenmarket, is a standard open-air greenmarket selling very inexpensive local produce, Tello’s eggs and a good variety of baked goods, especially the rye, they are open from June to November only, from 8am to 3pm and located on 34th Avenue b/t 77th and 78th Streets.

Greenmarkets are beginnig to be the place to be on weekend mornings, not only because of the fresh local produce, but because it’s a great way to socialize and hang-out.

New York is a construction. It’s a thing, a metaphor, and an inkling of an idea, and it gets created fresh every single day. There are vast machines at work here, financial, creative, and political, but the most powerful surely is the financial. At least, from the outside, that’s how it would seem, but anyone who’s spent time here has that uneasy sense that it’s more a construction of the people who live here, which suggests that some of this is in our control.

That’s a lot of responsibility. It also makes room a lot of freedom, because it means that actions and thoughts might actually matter. As the days progress, the things that humans do always have the potential to make changes for the better. This might be why we love to see art that turns our heads, because it might have an effect on the world at large.

We also like to see beautiful buildings, wonderful meals, and gorgeous hotels , and New York has plenty of these, offering plenty of wonderful touches to make a visit here a memorable and splendid adventure. Part of the adventure, however, is in being in a city composed of intensely creative people who are making them selves up as they go along, and up and coming stars like Elina Zavala is taking an active part in her own creation, and the results are rather stunning.

Some of her first work in the city was with John Caswell’s excellent Progressive Theatre Project where his play Shots offered heady theatre with a very powerful visual appeal, creating an absurd world gone out of control. She was one of the magnificent actors in the original production, giving her mechanical characters a very intelligent fire.

It’s the kind of fire that can turn someone to salt if you turn around too soon, but with her, you have no choice but to turn. The performances are so extraordinary, and the fire burns so clean, that it leaves the fingers burning with the memory of birth, and the responsibility of creation.