Yitz’s, like Katz’s, a Jewish deli farther north that shuttered in May after 49 years, is the latest casualty in a trend where something old, and rich in tradition, disappears so something new — condominiums — can rise in its place. Silver, the soft-spoken “pussycat” to Araujo’s bulldog, is the grandson of a deli man. Sax’s 2009 book, Save the Deli, chronicled the decline of the deli, a trend that has only accelerated. (Yitz’s, in true deli style, features a humidor next to the cash register.) “If we were still to be open for Chanukah, for example, we would sell thousands upon thousands of latkes: big ones, small ones, thin ones, fat ones.”At Passover, it is gefilte fish.

Source: The Star November 30, 2019 12:56 UTC