[rrdharan]

I live in New York (four years in Manhattan and a couple more in Brooklyn).

I think "incredibly easy" is a gross exaggeration. I supposed you might be talking about the street carts, but street meat is questionably healthy / "good". The deeper you get into parts of Queens it's certainly possible, but I think the previous poster had in mind some sort of sit down establishment rather than street food.

[chimeracoder]

I live midtown, and yes, it is incredibly easy to find prepared food for dinner that is cheaper than what these meal kit services charge, or even cheaper than the equivalent in groceries. I'm not talking about street carts either.

[pbreit]

If heat lamp slop is your thing, by all means. Not sure it's that comparable, though.

[chimeracoder]

> If heat lamp slop is your thing, by all means. Not sure it's that comparable, though.

Not sure where you get the idea that that's what I'm eating.

High-quality prepared food is pretty cheap in Manhattan, compared to the price of groceries and compared to the price in other places in the US. When you think about the underlying economics of it and the region, it's not surprising.