Last December we did a roundup of the best Italian-American restaurants located in Brooklyn — old-timers peddling the red-sauced cuisine that first arose when immigrant housewives adapted American ingredients to their Italian recipes over a century ago, highlighting things like spaghetti with meatballs, stuffed clams, baked pastas, eggplant rollatini, caesar salads, and cutlets of veal and chicken.

The response prompted us to extend the list of recommendations to the other four boroughs and nearby New Jersey. Here are some picks for an exceedingly enjoyable retro-dining experience — call it Heirloom Eating, Italian-American style. Restaurants are listed in order of preference.

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Source: http://ny.eater.com/