Last edit by: Long Train Runnin
Location: Second Avenue Deli - 162 East 33rd Street (between Lexington & 3rd Avenue)
Time: 1100 ET (please try to arrive a few minutes early)
Backup: Sarge's Deli (548 3rd Avenue)
Attending
GW McLintock
Long Train Runnin (NJ Transit Train of some variety.)
Zorak (Sunday 1720 UA 1141 EWR)
dhammer53
mhnadel
bk3day +1
M60_to_LGA
DELee +1 (Monday 1200 UA 2069 EWR)
CoffeeTraveler (Sunday 2000 B6 65 JFK)
Flying Machine (Sunday NJT Bus to Tom’s River)
Maybe
thewayofthefuture
SKYEG
Dublin_RFK
the_happiness_store
onetouchpass
st1575
Dublin_rfk
Time: 1100 ET (please try to arrive a few minutes early)
Backup: Sarge's Deli (548 3rd Avenue)
Attending
GW McLintock
Long Train Runnin (NJ Transit Train of some variety.)
Zorak (Sunday 1720 UA 1141 EWR)
dhammer53
mhnadel
bk3day +1
M60_to_LGA
DELee +1 (Monday 1200 UA 2069 EWR)
CoffeeTraveler (Sunday 2000 B6 65 JFK)
Flying Machine (Sunday NJT Bus to Tom’s River)
Maybe
thewayofthefuture
SKYEG
Dublin_RFK
the_happiness_store
onetouchpass
st1575
Dublin_rfk
The NYC Delicatessen DO: Sunday, November 7th, 2021
#106
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Just noticed this event and am sorry I will not be able to make it. We'll be in AUS. Have some pastrami for me and don't listen to dhammer53 when he talks about pizza .
Oh - and IIRC met up with some of you at Ben's a while back (Dovster's last trip to NYC?)... go somewhere else.
One final thing -- there was a NY Times article yesterday that is relevant here. The comments are also most amusing (including the justified complaints about the sub-headline):
Vicki Bodwell is an internet retail executive who moved to New York City from Texas in the late 1980s. Over breakfast recently, she told me in great detail about the very authentic bagel shop in TriBeCa where her family likes to go on Sunday mornings. As she spoke, I was thinking that there was a limit to how deep this shop’s roots could be. New York has many historically Jewish neighborhoods, but TriBeCa isn’t one of them.
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New York, of course, was once a checkerboard of Jewish neighborhoods, and every such enclave had one or more kosher delis upholding Orthodox dietary strictures in which meat and dairy must be kept separate and pork products are banned. By one count, New York had upward of 1,500 Jewish delis in the 1930s, which dwindled into the 10s in recent decades. The change was largely caused by demographics; the city’s Jewish population peaked at roughly 2 million circa 1950 and was half that by the early 1980s. The traditional delis were also undercut by changing attitudes toward their mainstays: fat, carbohydrates and salt.
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Oh - and IIRC met up with some of you at Ben's a while back (Dovster's last trip to NYC?)... go somewhere else.
One final thing -- there was a NY Times article yesterday that is relevant here. The comments are also most amusing (including the justified complaints about the sub-headline):
The Rise of the Designer Deli
Nothing says “New York” like a shabby shop that sells lox and bagels. But as the city’s delicatessens were threatened with extinction, a new species was unleashed.Vicki Bodwell is an internet retail executive who moved to New York City from Texas in the late 1980s. Over breakfast recently, she told me in great detail about the very authentic bagel shop in TriBeCa where her family likes to go on Sunday mornings. As she spoke, I was thinking that there was a limit to how deep this shop’s roots could be. New York has many historically Jewish neighborhoods, but TriBeCa isn’t one of them.
...
New York, of course, was once a checkerboard of Jewish neighborhoods, and every such enclave had one or more kosher delis upholding Orthodox dietary strictures in which meat and dairy must be kept separate and pork products are banned. By one count, New York had upward of 1,500 Jewish delis in the 1930s, which dwindled into the 10s in recent decades. The change was largely caused by demographics; the city’s Jewish population peaked at roughly 2 million circa 1950 and was half that by the early 1980s. The traditional delis were also undercut by changing attitudes toward their mainstays: fat, carbohydrates and salt.
...
#107
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A final reminder to complete the FT Deli Survey by 1700ET tomorrow if you are planning to attend and want to share your opinion on where we should go.
-J.
-J.
#108
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The results are in... and winning by quite the landslide (of one first-place vote) is the world-famous Second Avenue Deli. The results are as follows:
If you're still a "maybe," please try to move yourself to the confirmed list this week.
-J.
- Katz's - 17 points
- Pastrami Queen - 14 points
- PJ Bernstein - 6 points
- Sarge's - 16 points
- 2nd Ave. - 22 points
If you're still a "maybe," please try to move yourself to the confirmed list this week.
-J.
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I have also posted links to the delis and Google map locations in the wiki. Feel free to click through and start looking at the menu
-J.
-J.
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Following Zorak's trend, feel free to add your flight info to the wiki if you are flying in/out of NYC for this event This will aide in planning ground transportation post-DO.
-J
-J
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Added my + Mrs. departure info - had pushed off of a Sunday departure so we weren't hauling our bags around Manhattan or having to dash back to our old hotel and thence to EWR for a late afternoon/evening flight (and, on UA, were limited and not very appealing seats either).
David
David
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I might have a plus one... I'll confirm today.
Either way my hard stop will be the 6pm Knicks game at MSG Sunday.
Either way my hard stop will be the 6pm Knicks game at MSG Sunday.