{"id":589,"date":"2006-01-06T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/how_much_corned_beef_do_you_have_to_sell_to_make_rent.html"},"modified":"2006-01-06T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:56:58","slug":"how_much_corned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/how_much_corned.html","title":{"rendered":"How Much Corned Beef Do You Have To Sell To Make Rent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First CBGB, now 2nd Ave. Deli may have to close<\/a> because its monthly rent is being raised to figures higher than the average U.S. worker’s yearly earnings*:<\/p>\n

The East Village restaurant that has long been a magnet for lovers of corned beef, pastrami, Hungarian goulash and chopped liver has suspended operations, admitted owner Jack Lebewohl.<\/p>\n

But only temporarily, if he has anything to say about it.<\/p>\n

“This more than breaks my heart,” said Lebewohl yesterday, as hungry passersby stopped to peer through the deli’s iron gate before walking away. “Hopefully, it won’t be final. I hope to reach an agreement with the owners.”<\/p>\n

The kosher deli’s new landlord has increased the rent from $24,000 a month to $33,000, which is too thick a cut of the cash flow for Lebewohl to part with and still make a profit, he said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

More than 55 cooks, dishwashers and waiters have been laid off and forced to find new jobs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the Post writes glibly about the closing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The deli, which has been clogging arteries at the corner of East 10th since the 1950s, was closed by owner Jack Lebewohl on Sunday after the building’s new landlord demanded a rent increase from $24,000 a month to $33,000 a month.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*$28,652, according to Bureau of Labor statistics current as of November 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First CBGB, now 2nd Ave. Deli may have to close because its monthly rent is being raised to figures higher than the average U.S. worker’s yearly earnings*: The East Village restaurant that has long been a magnet for lovers of corned beef, pastrami, Hungarian goulash and chopped liver has suspended operations, admitted owner Jack Lebewohl. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}