“The restaurant business is one of the hardest jobs in New York City,” she said.
They’re calling it “pastrami on cry”: after nearly eight decades of serving 4in-high sandwiches to hungry New Yorkers and tourists, the Carnegie Deli has announced that it will close its doors at the end of 2016.
Speaking to staff in an emotional address, owner Marian Harper Levine said the stresses of running a restaurant in New York City had grown too much to bear.
The only beef that mattered to the Carnegie’s customers, though, was the meat layered lovingly in its famous sandwiches.