NYC's most iconic Katz’s Sandwich
Katz's An immigrant experience NYC’s most iconic sandwiches by Katz’s Some 80 years ago, New York City was home to three or four thousand delis. Today, there are less than 24. But can innovative approaches breathe new life into the doomed delicatessen? They’re not talking about the corner markets or bodegas that appear on nearly every New York block. They’re talking about the true New York City delicatessen: the brick and mortar expression of the American immigrant experience, the very culinary soul of the city. And unfortunately, where there used to be thousands, only a few remain. Delicatessens like Katz’s are the brick and mortar expression of the American immigrant experience (Spencer Platt/Getty) More than 100 years ago, in the second half of the 19th Century, New York’s tenements were swelling with new arrivals from Europe. Many thousands of these immigrants were Jewish, escaping persecution in Eastern Europe and Russ...