Wings in Long Island City

13 restaurants in Long Island City list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Blinks Deli & Pizza at $7.00, listed as Buffalo Wings. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Skinny's Cantina, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 129% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 563 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Long Island City? Blinks Deli & Pizza, at $7.00 on 43-01 35th St. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should wings cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 4 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $3.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.