“From the time I was 8 I would take the train from New Haven to Penn Station at least once a month and have lunch or dinner out with them. I got to try most of the Manhattan kosher restaurants that operated below the park between the early 1960s and dating days. All my grandparents lived in NYC and I was exposed to dining the outer boros as well.“
So the reason you went to those restaurants was because you had experience with them
My quote was “Nobody knows the quality of the restaurant that isn’t in the neighborhood” and in reference to your comment you were “in the neighborhood” because you were used to it when you were a kid
In general brooklyners wouldn’t go out to queens when they have countless restaurants in the area (save for if they happen to be in queens and need to get a bite to eat, but that’s the exception and not the rule)
I’m sorry I generalized when I said nobody, what I meant was people don’t usually