END OF AN ERA Carnegie Deli to close New York restaurant

Posted on 10/03/2016 | About New York City, New York

New York City’s iconic Carnegie Deli will close December 31. Spokeswoman Cristyne Nicholas says owner Marian Harper “emotionally announced the news” to employees on Friday. She says workers will have their jobs through the busy holiday season.

Harper's father bought the Manhattan deli from the original owners in 1976. The deli first opened in 1937.
Harper will focus on licensing the brand and selling products for wholesale distribution.
Carnegie will still have locations in Las Vegas; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; New York's Madison Square Garden; and at the US Open tennis tournament in Queens.
The popular tourist destination is a few blocks from Carnegie Hall and is known for its massive pastrami sandwiches and pop culture cameos. Scenes from Woody Allen's “Broadway Danny Rose” were shot there.
And the sandwiches are “massive.”
A friend reminded me this weekend of an incident in New York some years ago. We met a business associate for lunch at Carnegie Deli. It was my first time at the restaurant and I ordered the sandwich as he recommended. When it arrived it was so huge that I immediately lost my appetite – lost - gone – disappeared completely. But, nothing went to waste, our business associate who was about 5 ft 7 in, and topped out at no more that 120 lbs, easily ate his own gargantuan sandwich and then promptly wolfed mine down.
It was years before I could even think of a corned beef sandwich, again