Ichi Sushi at 2040 86th Street in Brooklyn.
"Stand just about anywhere on Broadway, or on Canal Street with its sprightly neon and overstuffed souvenir shops, or the long stretch of restaurants, hardware stores, pharmacies, bars, realtors, barber shops, groceries and auto shops that extends through Fifth Avenue in South Brooklyn, and you’ll find a surplus of vibrant and overstated signage — a cacophony of typography. Steven Heller, a co-chairman at the School of Visual Arts’ M.F.A. program, sees it somewhat differently. 'You say cacophony,’ he said. 'I call it chaos.' But amid all of this chaos there is the occasional beacon. Choc, for instance. It’s a typeface that draws the eye with its inherent contradictions. It seems to have been drawn improvisationally with a brush, and yet it’s so hefty it looks like it could slip off a wall. It’s both delicate and emphatic, a casual paradox, like a Nerf weapon. Choc is far from the most popular typeface on the storefronts of New York, but it can still be found everywhere and in every borough. It’s strewn on fabric awnings and etched in frosted glass. It gleams in bright magenta or platinum lighting. ..."
NY Times
Fukuyama Sushi and Ramen at 622 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn.
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