For those in the know, Brooklyn restaurant/ art space Monkeytown has some of the most adventurous menu items and booking calendars in the entire city. Outrageously spicy desserts and main entrees rub elbows with experimental videos and the city's finest music-makers performing live. For this installment of My NY, we asked restauranteur and main Monkey man Montgomery Knott to dish out his favorite spots in the city.
A&A (The Doubles King)
Fulton and Nostrand
I moved to Bed-Sty recently. I'm very happy there. And one of the primary reasons for my happiness is A&A. This is Trinidadian breakfast food. You can get either Doubles ($1.25) or Bakes ($2.50). Doubles are channa (spicy masala chickpeas) and they come between some fried bread and ask for them spicy with the tamarind sauce as well. You'll want two. Bake's resemble roti, but come with your choice of Salt Cod, Shark or Corned Beef. Ask for it spicy as well. Understand!
The Statue of Liberty
I've been once and spent all of the time marveling at the lovely green lady's sandals. So huge, so monumental. But then someone told me something that, if true, would make the lady's skirt a destination for non-film, non-diagetic film buffs. It's been said that on a sunny to partly cloudy day, if you climb up into her skirt, there are tiny pinholes where the copper didn't quite fit. And if you observe carefully, you can see sprawling inverted landscapes of Jersey and lower Manhattan via this humungous up-skirt camera obscura. I see London, I see France...
Fort Tilden Beach
I'm not even worried about spoiling this deserted beach because most of this city is too lazy to hop on their bikes and ride past Brighton Beach, past Coney Island, all the way to the dunes where unexploded ordinance, oblivion and sand are awaiting Felicia Ballos Dancer The greatest contemporary dancer on the scene, East to West, still the best. If you notice she's performing as herself, with others, or with Modern Garage Movement, do yourself a favor...
Ali's Kebab Cafe & Shopsin's Queens & Essex Market
Before you die. Before they die. Do yourself a favor. Eat their food. Kenny's (Shopsin's) is so storied i won't even bother to retell it. His food is served with a side of unrepentant attitude and spice. And it's next to the greatest cheesemonger in all of New York (who's name even sounds like a cheese, Ms. Saxelby). And Ali. Seriously, just tell him to make whatever he'd like to make for you and 3 or 6 of your friends and you will have one of the greatest meals of your lifetime. You are not getting any younger, nor are they.
Sripraphai Woodside, Queens
Last restaurant (I can't help it, I own one). Really, NYC, fuck your bagels! Three things you cannot get in New York: great Tex-Mex (or Mex for that matter, though La Superior comes closest); great 24-hour/late-night food; great Thai...wait, take that back. What you've been eating at any other po-dunk Thai restaurant is essentially Chinese food. It is junk. Hop on the 7 Train and taste what it's like to have food that can close down entire airports and occupy the Prime Minister's house. Next lesson, breakfast tacos. I'm a dreamer.
Shana Moulton Video artist
Do not tell her. I am her biggest fan. Her work is impeccable, hilarious, and seriously profound. The hat trick, triple crown, and trifecta. Cheers.
Sunset Park
There are a few trees in this park that you want to adopt and hug and lay beneath and plan and make families. The highest point in Brooklyn. So close to the most profound bartender in New York at Melody Lanes. Conveniently located near some very cheap, decent Mexican restaurants. And a WPA pool that will get you wet, if necessary. Such big hills, big trees and canopies of leaves to meditate upon and under.
Sanctuary The Frick
It took me forever to get there. But when I did, I was pleasantly moved by its genteel gentileness. But even more moving were the dozens of portraits of statesmen brandishing swords or other such sabres in breathtakingly phallic-substituting locations. Which led me to re-christen it: The Prick. Have a look.
The Natural History Museum
Holden Caulfield, remember him? He was right. The diaramas are exquisite. Where are you, mon Phoebe?
I moved to Bed-Sty recently. I'm very happy there. And one of the primary reasons for my happiness is A&A. This is Trinidadian breakfast food. You can get either Doubles ($1.25) or Bakes ($2.50). Doubles are channa (spicy masala chickpeas) and they come between some fried bread and ask for them spicy with the tamarind sauce as well. You'll want two. Bake's resemble roti, but come with your choice of Salt Cod, Shark or Corned Beef. Ask for it spicy as well. Understand!
The Statue of Liberty
I've been once and spent all of the time marveling at the lovely green lady's sandals. So huge, so monumental. But then someone told me something that, if true, would make the lady's skirt a destination for non-film, non-diagetic film buffs. It's been said that on a sunny to partly cloudy day, if you climb up into her skirt, there are tiny pinholes where the copper didn't quite fit. And if you observe carefully, you can see sprawling inverted landscapes of Jersey and lower Manhattan via this humungous up-skirt camera obscura. I see London, I see France...
Fort Tilden Beach
I'm not even worried about spoiling this deserted beach because most of this city is too lazy to hop on their bikes and ride past Brighton Beach, past Coney Island, all the way to the dunes where unexploded ordinance, oblivion and sand are awaiting Felicia Ballos Dancer The greatest contemporary dancer on the scene, East to West, still the best. If you notice she's performing as herself, with others, or with Modern Garage Movement, do yourself a favor...
Ali's Kebab Cafe & Shopsin's Queens & Essex Market
Before you die. Before they die. Do yourself a favor. Eat their food. Kenny's (Shopsin's) is so storied i won't even bother to retell it. His food is served with a side of unrepentant attitude and spice. And it's next to the greatest cheesemonger in all of New York (who's name even sounds like a cheese, Ms. Saxelby). And Ali. Seriously, just tell him to make whatever he'd like to make for you and 3 or 6 of your friends and you will have one of the greatest meals of your lifetime. You are not getting any younger, nor are they.
Sripraphai Woodside, Queens
Last restaurant (I can't help it, I own one). Really, NYC, fuck your bagels! Three things you cannot get in New York: great Tex-Mex (or Mex for that matter, though La Superior comes closest); great 24-hour/late-night food; great Thai...wait, take that back. What you've been eating at any other po-dunk Thai restaurant is essentially Chinese food. It is junk. Hop on the 7 Train and taste what it's like to have food that can close down entire airports and occupy the Prime Minister's house. Next lesson, breakfast tacos. I'm a dreamer.
Shana Moulton Video artist
Do not tell her. I am her biggest fan. Her work is impeccable, hilarious, and seriously profound. The hat trick, triple crown, and trifecta. Cheers.
Sunset Park
There are a few trees in this park that you want to adopt and hug and lay beneath and plan and make families. The highest point in Brooklyn. So close to the most profound bartender in New York at Melody Lanes. Conveniently located near some very cheap, decent Mexican restaurants. And a WPA pool that will get you wet, if necessary. Such big hills, big trees and canopies of leaves to meditate upon and under.
Sanctuary The Frick
It took me forever to get there. But when I did, I was pleasantly moved by its genteel gentileness. But even more moving were the dozens of portraits of statesmen brandishing swords or other such sabres in breathtakingly phallic-substituting locations. Which led me to re-christen it: The Prick. Have a look.
The Natural History Museum
Holden Caulfield, remember him? He was right. The diaramas are exquisite. Where are you, mon Phoebe?
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