Frank Schulenburg / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia CommonsNew York’s oldest deli, Katz’s has been piling hand-carved pastrami onto rye on the Lower East Side since 1888. Loud, cash-ticketed and gloriously old-school, that first bite is a genuine rite of passage for any first-timer.
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