"A perpetual pastrami war has, at last, ended.
The Stage Deli on Seventh Avenue, known for its overstuffed sandwiches, closed after 75 years.
For generations, two venerable Seventh Avenue establishments, the Stage Deli and the Carnegie Deli, battled implacably for customers, newspaper ink, news crews, show-business notables, dignitaries and celebrity-sandwich names.
But with the news on Friday that the Stage Deli — known for its overstuffed sandwiches garnished with the names of show-business boldfacers — had closed its doors at midnight on Thursday after 75 years, the interminable hostilities ceased."
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There was a lot of history in that place. It will be missed.
I've always been a Carnegie guy myself, but this loss still saddens me. They were both integral parts of the tightly woven fabric that makes up that great city.
