Little India on East Sixth Street

A couple of blocks up Second Avenue from my place, past Lhasa and Siam Square, around the corner from Szechuan Exotic Chinese Food and the flowerstand, is the largest concentration of Indian restaurants this side of Asia, I imagine. It's part of that crazy quilt of ethnicity that is the East Village, predating most of today's popular ethnic food places.

The kaleidoscope of cultures that is the City has never ceased to amaze me in all the years I've been here. I'm a perpetual tourist snapping pictures on streets I've walked so many times before. ... MORE