A sweaty and hungry young HG left the playing field in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of The Bronx and headed for Jerome Avenue (the “El” was overhead). This was the location of a local pizzeria. HG demolished three big, greasy, cheesy slices of pizza accompanied by ginger ale on ice. (HG has always hated Coke and Pepsi). Dessert was an ice cream bar from the next dood candy store. This was a lush, very affordable meal (60 cents). As a busy journalist, HG often dined (if you can call it that) at the rough and tumble Mirror Bar in The E.45th Street Mirror building where HG hq’ed. Hard boiled egg, pickled pig’s knuckle and a “boilermaker” (shot of whiskey accompanied by a cold. beer). (Cost: 35 cents). Other faves during journalism days were the platters of corned beef and cabbage that were fixtures on the steam tables of Irish “Bar and Grills” on Third Avenue (Cost: $1.25) and the pot roast sandwich and gravy at Connolly’s Bar on 23rd Street. (Cost: $1.25). Best of all cheap eats was the grilled Italian sausage with fried onions and peppers on a soft roll. It was dispensed from the back of a truck in Greenwich Village. (Cost: $1.00)
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