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The Best Indian Restaurants in NYC

Indian restaurants in New York City go back over a century, and Times Square was an early hotspot.

The Best Indian Restaurants in NYC

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Indian restaurants in New York City go back over a century, and Times Square was an early hotspot.

Perhaps the most famous was the paradoxically named Taj Mahal Hindu Indian Restaurant, founded in 1918 at 242 West 42nd Street at Eighth Avenue, when many South Asian students, businesspeople, dock workers,...

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Indian restaurants in New York City go back over a century, and Times Square was an early hotspot. Perhaps the most famous was the paradoxically named Taj Mahal Hindu Indian Restaurant, founded in 1918 at 242 West 42nd Street at Eighth Avenue, when many South Asian students, businesspeople, dock workers, and sailors lived in nearby […]

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