Round and Round: Pizza at Leisure Time Lanes

Posted by Adam Kuban, March 2, 2005 at 9:02 AM

PICK IT UP: Bowling and pizza just seem to go together. I mean, both the balls used in the sport (above left) and pizza (below) are round. "Lo Karb" (above right), after getting two strikes in a row.

This reporter and this website's city editor, Seltzerboy, left work yesterday with no intention of seeking slices. No, we were off to Leisure Time Lanes, in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, with some coworkers, to bowl a few frames.

But alas, though pizza is our raison d'être, it is also our albatross, so we weren't surprised when the stuff reared its head last night. We were caught off guard, though, at the sight of the doughy disks sitting laneside on a banquet table moodily lit by a sleek, modernistic candelabra (above and left). (We think it might have been some part of a radio-station event.)

This reporter, bowling under the nom de lanes Lo Karb, can't vouch for the taste or merit of these pies, though consensus among us, coworkers included, was that it didn't look all that great, covered with thick, congealed blankets of mozzarella. (Hey: Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.) Not only that, but the bowlers who were feasting on this spread were all but ignoring the pies sitting just a few feet behind them—yet more circumstantial evidence that points to these pies being the pizzaworld equivalent to a gutter ball.

We're scheduling another such after-work outing to the lanes next month; at that time we will give the pies a fair shake and report back. For now, we're doing our part to let Slice-reading bowling fans know that their favorite food is available at Leisure Time, should you choose to roll some frames there. (And we highly recommend it; there's something slightly off-kilter and fun about a bowling alley located in a bus terminal.)

LEISURE TIME LANES
Location: Port Authority Bus Terminal, 2nd FL
Phone: 212-268-6909
Payment: Cash and credit; $8 per game per person or $45/hour; shoe rental, $5

Winners' Circle: The bowlers eating from the pizza buffet (above left) may—or may not—have been rewarded by its taste. Adam K. and Slice downtown editor (and teammate) Honey P.—bowling as "Tha Zone"—both won t-shirts (above right; photo by Slice nightlife editor Trixie) from Mix 102.7; the station was there doing some type of promo.

[Shouts out to the other members of my team, Ms. Atkinzz and South Biatch, who, along with me and Tha Zone, make up the bowltastic four known as "MMM Good." Props, too, to our opposing team, which we soundly trounced and which was too lame to even name itself: Tayzer, Trixie, Seltzer, Lola, and Deezel.]

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