REC TEAM NYC

At the tailend of 2023, I founded the YouTube channel REC TEAM NYC, a platform where celebrities and internet personalities recommend their favorite restaurants in New York City and beyond. What began as a simple passion project has gone on to garner tens of millions of views across platforms, producing a number of viral moments in the process:

• Freddy Palazzolo of Krispy Pizza crafts the perfect pie (11MM views on YouTube Shorts)

• The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner explains how the philosophical principle of “gestalt” applies to an Italian sub (1.6MM views on Instagram)

• Singer Stephanie Poetri recommends the best Indonesian food in NYC (3.5MM views on Instagram)

HIDDEN GEMS IN YOUR CITY

In 2024, TikTok selected REC TEAM NYC to be part of its “Hidden Gems in Your City” campaign, using the channel as one of two examples of creators “making high-quality content” on the platform.

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