The Village Voice's annual feeding frenzy known as Choice Eats returned for its 7th year with a brand new space that packed in nearly 3,000 food fanatics. The enormous new space at Basketball City didn't stop lines from forming at vendor stations but did help to ease some of the congestion felt in previous years, which goes a long way towards keeping one's sanity. The 84 restaurants on hand succeeded in their promotion of overeating—try as I might, I simply could not sample all of the food on hand. But what I did eat was, for the most part, excellent. [ more › ]Reported by Gothamist 4 hours ago.