Pizza, bagels, friendly shouting: these are a few of New York’s favorite things. BBQ, currently strong nationwide, has yet to find as secure a home in the five boroughs. That’s where Michael Brandl enters the scene: Queens-born and with pizza dough for bones, he has nonetheless chosen, via his Bushwick-based food truck Rib in a Cup, to peddle the food ways of the American South. Earlier this year, Brandl brought those eponymous ribs—plus pulled pork, fried chicken and various sides—to the busy intersection of Dekalb and Wyckoff.
Brandl’s grandfather ran a deli-slash-pizzeria in Long Island City, but Brandl’s father opted for a steady, benefits-rich union job as a Verizon line worker. Decades later, the son he…
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