Not looking to splurge?
Here’s what
$600 can get you if you know how to stretch it:
Bamn! (pictured, left): 200 servings of mozzarella
sticks—paid for with 2,400 quarters, of course. [$3 per serving]. 37 St.
Mark’s Place, 888-400-2266
Buttercup Bake Shop: 307 cupakes with $1.35 left over
for tip [$1.95 per cupcake]; 973 Second Ave.,
212-350-4144
99 Cents Fresh Pizza: 606 slices of pizza, with 6 cents
to spare. 151 E. 43rd St., 212-922-0257
Gray’s Papaya: 171 apropos “Recession Specials”
(two hot dogs and a papaya drink) plus an extra hot dog and 25 cents for tip—a
grand total of 342 hot dogs [Recession
Special: $3.50; single hot dog: $1.25]; 2090
Broadway, 212-799-0243
Dumpling House: 3,000 vegetable-and-pork dumplings
[$2 for 10 pieces]. 118
Eldridge St., 212-625-8008
Mamoun’s Falafel: 857 falafel balls, plus 10 cents
for tip [70 cents per falafel ball]. 119
MacDougal St., 212-674-8685
