Roberta’s brings a slice of Brooklyn to the Penn Station area
Attention Midtown South office workers: Don’t let the tourists take all the terrific pizza.
On your harried commutes through Penn Station, you might not have noticed that Roberta’s, a pizza maker much loved by Brooklyn foodies, has set up shop right under your noses.
An outdoor outpost of Roberta’s, complete with a portable wood-fired oven, arrived earlier this month in a pedestrian plaza running between W. 33rd and W. 34th streets, parallel to Seventh Avenue. It’s a stone’s throw away from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.