People that don't live in or around NYC think I'm nuts when I say it's hard to find a decent deli to sit down and have a pastrami sandwich with a few pickles in Manhattan. Well at least one person at The Gothamist shares my feeling that the deli is dying cuisine. The Gothamist article notes that a deli lost its meaning, and there aren't event 20 left in the city:
Sadly, the word deli has lost its meaning. Today, deli and bodegas are synonymous....