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Steven, Alas, Dibellas has gone the way of Stavy's. But certainly missed more than that rat infested sinkhole. YES! Of course I went to Dibella's. If we weren't at Ambrosia, we were at Dibella's. Was it the same nice Korean couple that ran it when you went to Stuy? I always found it odd that a Korean couple passed themselves off as purveyors of fine Italian groceries. But then again, I have come to expect anything in NY. Oh how I miss those sandwiches. Suprisingly, it was a simple formula now that I think about it. Offer a cheap hero with lots of meat and slath it with mayonaise. Last time I walked around the area I think it was a converted Korean grocery. So they got rid of the Italian theme. But the same couple was not there. I think when they moved the school down to Battery Park City it took a huge chunk of business from them. In many ways, while the old Stuy was in serious disrepair, there was so much character in both the neighborhood and the building itself. I graduated a couple of years before they moved and I visited the new building when it opened. In the old Stuy it used to be that you would see anyone and everyone by walking up the "down" staircases. Now they have escalators. I don't even know if the students are allowed to leave the building for lunch.

Steven, it's funny how you mention ambrosia waiters! there was one waiter there named Spiro who I bet served me maybe 100x a year. so a few years after i graduated a friend and I were in a diner in jersey and my friend was wearing his stuyvesant jacket, he's a little younger than i am. when the waiter came over to take our order he asked us how Spiro at Ambrosia was doing! I guess there's a brotherhood of Greek waiters where they all know each other, kind of like firemen who know someone in every company.

As other "old" Stuyvesant alums might recall, there was a place on first between 15 and 16th called Ambrosia where literally I went for lunch everyday. I don't ever recall it being all that good but it was one of the few places in the neighborhood that had seats and in the dead of winter, I was certainly not going to sit in the park. I'm more familiar with diners in Queens and for the most part the best one I've been to is the Georgia diner on Queens Blvd right by the old Macy's. The Georgia is very good for Queens but if we expand our boundaries a bit, New Jersey diners are far better than NYC diners. Diners in Jersey have perfected the art, right down to the pink formica. Speaking of diners, does anyone know the name and location of the diner in the movie Goodfellas where they're always eating? I've always wanted to visit that particular diner.