There is a famous sub joint in canarsie and still open ( i think. ).
you're thinking of Sonny's?
http://www.yelp.com/biz/sonnys-heros-brooklyn http://www.yelp.com/biz/sonnys-heros-brooklyn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpar_Yisx_U speaking of heros, I used to be in the south Bronx a lot and there was very good place, Joey's Hot & Cold Heros, Morris & 149th, amazing it had survived in even semi-Italian style
good pizza on Canarsie too, Armando's on Rockaway Ave, also just off the L.
for those who haven't been to Canarsie, I'd really caution against having too negative opinion. Though it was the butt of jokes, that had more to do with its "funny" name, the distance from 'the city,' the many decades there were still numerous open lots and wetlands (there are still the latter but nearly all by the water).
There were also two landfills on Canarsie border/near Pennsylvania Ave and Fountain Ave so that had its effect.
Mostly, however, the bum rap on Canarsie is exaggerated 'white flight' prejudice, i.e. working and middle-class West Indian blacks have most of the same desires, values as their Jewish-Italian predecessors... There's small colony of Filipinos in Canarsie too btw, I keep forgetting to mention.