It’s true, sometimes Midtown Manhattan lives up to its worst stereotype. On one of my first restaurant visits for this guide, I sat next to two J.P. Morgan bankers loudly discussing their hobbies (“In the winter I ski, in the summer I cycle,”) and their personal lives (“I tied up a lot of money in that ring,”). It felt like I was on the set of a bad TV …
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