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Barcade
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

718.302.6464
Thrill to the chase of Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde at this "arcade for grown-ups." Featuring all the "old-school games like Ms. PacMan and Galaga in a bar setting," it's like stepping into an 80's dream hangout, but with a "great selection of microbrews on tap and beef jerky." The location in "hipster-ville Williamsburgh" feels like "an old garage with roll-down door, huge ceilings, and wooden posts next to each game" (so you can set down your beer, of course). Be on the lookout for happy hour specials while reveling in the "unreal." Read more.
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Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden
Astoria, Queens

718.274.4925
Sunglasses? Check. Drinking shoes? Check. The "last remaining outdoor beer garden in New York City?" Very Czech. "Well worth a taxi ride over the bridge to Astoria," the beer garden is "enormous" and "a perfect place to have a couple of pints outside with your friends." Be sure to fill up on "great beers and sausages" while listening to "oompah bands" at the "picnic tables under trees like in Germany." All of the indoor furniture was shipped straight from Czechoslovakia, and the attached school caters to an old-world crowd speaking in the mother tongue. Read more.

DiPalo Dairy
Little Italy, Manhattan

212.226.1033
In a city famed for its food, when you take a bite out of the Big Apple, you want it to be fresh, and you'll find it no fresher than at "one of the last affordable gourmet markets in the city." Run by an Italian family for "almost 100 years," the "finest" mozzarella is "made daily" and "comes out of the kitchen warm." If you want "homemade sausages, roasted peppers, and hand-made pastas" to accompany your dairy, be sure to grab a number, and "try and keep your patience when charming older Italian ladies elbow their way up to the counter."
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Brooklyn Cyclones Minor League Baseball
Coney Island, Brooklyn

718.449.8497
After a 44-year hiatus, baseball returned to Brooklyn during summer 2001. Ever since, it's been a grand-slam "hugely popular" hit. Set on Coney Island, KeySpan Park offers a "great chance to watch a game and hang out at the beach," and the attached baseball gallery is filled with memorabilia to check out before or after the game. For fans of "Durham-style local league baseball," seeing the Cyclones is a way to "watch a game without paying full major league prices." So be sure to swing by to say "hello" to team mascots Sandy the Seagull and his little sidekick Pee Wee. Read more.

L&B Spumoni Gardens
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

718.449.1230
Since it started serving food from a horse-drawn wagon in 1939, Spumoni Gardens has offered up "the best pizza in the area, and real Spumoni ices." Despite being "difficult to get to," the "super Sopranos-like" Bensonhurst setting features "people spilling out onto the sidewalk on summer nights," which makes the trip "beyond worth it." Have a seat on the patio and find whatever you like on the extensive menu, be it "amazing Sicilian pizza" or pastas piled high to the sky at "one of the last real New York City places." Read more.
Local Secrets, Big Finds - New York