The Best Damn Pizza in the World

This is a link to Slice, a serious blog dedicated to New York City pizza. Slice reviews pizza places in all boroughs, covers restaurant openings and closings, and even does some international news. Their "NYC Pizza Maps" will help you find the best pizza anywhere in the city. Highly recommended and delicious.

New York City "Food Drought"

The Gotham Gazette has an excellent article on unequal access to whole foods in New York City and the so-called "food drought" in the outer boroughs. The article demonstrates a direct link between access to fruits and vegetables and income: Chelsea, with a median income of $100,000 per year, is filled with fruit stands and whole food groceries, whereas you can hardly buy lettuce in West Harlem, which has a median income of about $30,000. Great use of testimony from New York City residents and a useful map that shows the distribution of groceries stores in each neighborhood in New York City.

You can find links to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's plan to fix the food drought here.

Fast Food Map of NYC

This is a Google Maps mashup that shows the fast food restaurants in New York City, broken down by chain. I'm not sure if they're all represented or not. Still, this could be useful if you were doing research on the density of fast food restaurants or their placement.

FoodNYC on The Brian Lehrer Show

Right this minute, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC is doing a program on problems in the New York City food system and
FoodNYC, Scott Stringer’s plan for sustainable food in New York City.

You can see the description of the show here at WNYC's web site.

You can read Scott Stringer's FoodNYC plan here.