Katz's Delicatessen
The table
Lower East Side institution slicing pastrami by hand since 1888. Hold your ticket, order at the counter, and have what she's having.
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Katz's wartime slogan 'Send a salami to your boy in the army' began as a real WWII campaign — the deli shipped salamis to soldiers overseas, and still does.
The Alligators Below
Every Lower East Sider knows the story: pet baby alligators, brought home from Florida holidays and flushed when they grew too big, thriving pale and blind in the warm dark of the sewers beneath the city — growing, the old-timers wink, to this very day.
The local landmark
Williamsburg Bridge, New York stands as New York's defining structure — the sight that anchors the city in memory long after the meal is finished.
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