A call for help to Bloofington

I worked on a project there for six weeks back in 1999.
Can't help with the pizza. Didn't care for for the NYC variety.
Jewish Deli's are fairly common. There will be a few around the diamond district. I ate at one most every day over in Brooklyn Heights because it was the cleanest lunch place I could find. It looked clean, it smelled clean and the price was right.

Little Italy is your best bet for Italian deli's.

Recommended for Fillet and a pint of Guinness if they're still around.
DJ Reynold's on West 57th.
Kennedy's on West 57th.

There was a good Mexican place on Broadway near West 57th as well. Don't remember its name though.

A regular coffee in NYC is likely to have cream or milk. You have to order it black if that's what you want.

Wow. I'm just getting around to seeing this now. Very sorry. I'll have to check in here more often. Although I am back to more regular participation on these forums, because of time constraints, and stress due to extreme financial difficulties, I've confined my reading and posting only to certain forums.

One thing I'd have to say before getting started is that I'm very unqualified to answer this post properly. I don't go out much, and I never have. As a result, there are a lot of things that go right by me, when it comes to cultural aspects of NYC. I don't like going out much, and being on the verge of losing my apartment, and perhaps a lot more, I don't eat out at all. I never did eat out much, although I did have my favorite spots, but these days, all eating out, even stopping for pizza somewhere, is out of the question.

If you're in Manhattan, I'd say check out Imperial Pizza on 34th and 3rd Avenue. In Astoria, Queens, there's Grand Pizza on 35th St. and 30th Avenue, or Polito's Pizza on Broadway near Steinway Street. As for Jewish Deli's, there's a great place in Forest Hills, just outside the 67th Avenue subway, called Knish Nosh. In Manhattan, there's Katz's Deli on Houston Street, way downtown.

As for good Italian Deli, I'm really unqualified for that. Terribly sorry, but I hope I've helped a bit.

From Memory:
For good Italian food, restaurant or deli, go to Arthur Avenue and Fordham Road, in the Bronx. Walk the area (only three or four blocks) and look in shop and restaurant windows. Don't forget to buy some house-made torrone (Italian nougat—as close to the Food of the Gods as you can get without using chocolate).
Bloof has said that you still can get a good bagel in New York, but I have come to doubt it. Especially in Manhattan. The upscale delis, like Zabar's, have fancy goods like Nova Scotia salmon and sturgeon, but they're take-out, not eat-in.
The best New-York-style pizza I've had recently (within the past three years) was in Larchmont, north east of the city. I don't remember the name of the place, but it was near the railway station.

Great bagels in Forest Hills, just up from 69th Avenue going toward Yellowstone Blvd., in the mini mall. Also here in Astoria at a place on 30th Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets.

It's still the same bustling, thriving, working class, ethnically diverse neighborhood as it was back then. Except, about 15-20 years ago, we got the one thing Astoria had always been missing, a good Noo Yawk bagel. Now we've got those, too.