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A New York Story

A

s last week drew to a close and await our arrival and surreptitiously cap-
the holiest days of the year set
ture the moment she said yes in Central
in, we learned of the
Park.
forthcoming demise of a quint-
We flew in early that
essential Jewish icon — New
Saturday morning and from
York City’s famed Carnegie
LaGuardia headed to our hotel
Deli. Nestled in the heart of
to drop off our bags and kill
Midtown, just blocks from
time before our room was
Times Square, the restaurant has
ready. I’d planned a walk up
long served as a tourist mecca
and around the Park to Boulud
for oversized sandwiches and a
Sud where we had lunch before
caricature of Jewish culture and Ryan
we finally, and seemingly
Fishman
cuisine. The menu was pep-
casually, wandered toward a
pered with Yiddish and plenty of
planned destination where I
schmaltz (of both the literal and figura-
would pop the big question.
tive variety).
What I didn’t plan for was that she’d
2017 would have marked 80 years in
be thirsty and want some water, available
the corned beef and egg cream business, only in the form of a big, touristy water
but sadly Carnegie won’t see that mile-
bottle that would ruin the photos she
stone — at least not in the Big Apple.
didn’t know were being taken. So I said
For now, at least, the Las Vegas location
no and forced her to soldier on. She got
inside the Mirage appears to be staying
frustrated and angry, little did she know
open. For those who hope to make a
what was just moments away. Blocks
final pilgrimage, you’d better start shop-
later, it happened, and in an overjoyed
ping for flights; the deli plans to close
daze we just kept walking. Walking
before the clock strikes midnight on Dec. miles, in fact, to the point that we both
31.
could barely take another step by the
For me, like Woody Allen’s hapless
time we ultimately collapsed on the bed
Broadway Danny Rose, the restaurant
of our hotel room.
served as the memorable backdrop for
This, of course, was the moment when
romantic comedy. About this time two
Carnegie Deli became a part of our story,
years ago, I was secretively planning
albeit a footnote. We were staying some
the details of a trip to New York where I
two doors over from the restaurant at the
proposed to my then-girlfriend and now- Park Central Hotel. We were both starv-
wife Jordan.
ing but barely had the strength to walk
I say secretive in the most bumbling
another step. So, filling the forthcoming
of ways, as she’d cautioned me only a few role of dutiful husband, I hobbled my
days prior she didn’t want to get engaged way into that infamous scene where they
in Manhattan and was sure I was up to
stuffed a box with rugalach and seven-
something. So a ruse was planned —
layer cake, and then back to the hotel
that I was a few paychecks short of the
where we noshed on dessert fare and
money I needed to pick up the ring she
phoned family and friends to share the
knew I was having made and it was just
good news.
an innocent trip.
That was our New York Story, to bor-
From there, I enlisted the help of
row the title of another Allen film, and
some movie-worthy supporting charac-
we’ll always have that weekend with the
ters from my college days in the Empire
Carnegie Deli.
State: the college roommate from Miami;
MAZEL TOV …
the CBS reporter who could pick us up
from the airport in his company car; the Happy birthday to Alix Craig, Avi
Davidoff and Alan Stalburg.
television producer who helped stage
And, to our community, I wish an
and plan the caper; and, finally, the
easy fast and a meaningful time to reflect
former White House intern who called
on all of our joys and blessings.
a friend, Bill Clinton’s photographer, to

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May the New Year
bring to all our friends
and family
health, joy, prosperity and
everything good in life.

Rosh Hashanah

2016
5777

Marcia & Stan Freedman

HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTHY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

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