Posted on 09/30/2016 9:25:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Carnegie Deli, a New York institution since 1937, will soon serve its last “Woody Allen.”
The iconic home to gigantic Jewish-style sandwiches — like the 4-inch-high, pastrami-and-corned beef “Woody” on rye — will close its doors forever on Dec. 31, The Post has learned.
Restaurant owner Marian Harper Levine tearfully broke the news to 60 heartbroken employees on Friday morning.
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Hope Trump can save this place
Cut taxes and repeal Obamacare, and it could just happen.
Did Trump say he was trying to save it?
Wow... what do you think of this?
This news makes me very sad. Going back to New York to eat at the Carnegie Deli again was on my bucket list.
With the cost of beef today, labor costs, workers comp, liability insurance, soaring costs of utilities restaurants are next to impossible to make a profit today!!! It is never ending hours and work for very little income!! With Deblasio in charge of the city they have NO WAY of knowing what the HELL is coming their way probably just said SCREW IT!!!
They opened a branch in Beverly Hills some years back. Each of us in my department ordered a sandwich and had it delivered. The sandwiches were so big they EACH were in a large grocery bag.
The proton sizes were ginormous!!!
It will be a very sad moment for the City.
The quality of food has gone way down but at least the Carnegie made up for in quantity. You always had to ask for two extra slices of bread for the part of the sandwich you took home. Another great part of New York gone.
Yesterday I saw a yellow cab pull up behind another yellow cab that was picking up two girls who looked like tourists. The cabbie behind was yelling at the two girls that their cab was illegal. It wasn’t. He was just trying desperately to get a fare, by stealing another cabbie’s passengers.
I remember when there was no partition and the cabdrivers wore those little flat caps with the tiny brim in front. You could have a discussion and you usually did.
Great pro-horse carriage scene in Woody Allen’s latest.
Do you and zelig still enjoy the great movies?
Grossly over stuffed sandwiches don’t make much business sense. Plus, they are hard to eat and fall apart, etc.
In Anaheim, Belisle’s (The Pink Restaurant), used to serve gigantic portions on huge platters. The food was very good. An Outback is now in their place.
Most Jewish food is not that great {only my opinion} but deli sandwiches are an exception.
Well, I don’t eat there so it doesn’t play a big part in my life. Apparently when it reopened a year ago, the sandwich prices were out of control. That might have hit the tourist trade very hard.
When the Carnegie Hall Cinema was still around - years ago - I used to pick up a sandwich to have at home after a movie. Long time ago.
For those who still have it on their bucket list, think about Katz’s which still has the best pastrami (although I favor the corned beef and great hot dogs), 2nd Avenue Deli (which is no longer on 2nd Avenue) for the chopped liver or Russ & Daughters for the greatest ‘appetizers’ in the world including luscious fresh-made cream cheese, smoked salmon and herring. Also great handmade chocolates. It’s right up the block from Katz’s.
We also use a place in NJ called Harold’s.
Yup, $20 dollars for a sandwich is stupid even for a tourist trap like the Carnegie. There are so many better places to spend money in NYC.
All those places are great and should be on everyone’s bucket list. BTW, Katz’s is where they filmed the hilarious “fake orgasm” scene in When Harry Met Sally.
You've still go three months to cross it off...if you hurry.
Carnegie’s food quality isn’t that great. For corned beef, I much prefer Sarge’s on Third Avenue.
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