Fresh garbanzo beans are cheaper than fava beans, and they demonstrate in a nutshell (pod?) the “better vegetables through outer boroughs” principle of produce. It may hardly be news, but more than a pound of still-in-shell chickpeas was found yesterday for $1.99 at Brooklyn’s Three Guys, a 24/7 discount greens place on the corner of 65th and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Shopping-wise, you may get pushed out of the way by a cart wielding nonna gunning for the greengage plums, or distracted by a cross-dressing man calmly sorting through the melons. more ›