40 Once-Popular American Diners That Are No Longer Around

Carnegie Deli has a history almost as colorful as its trademark sign. The legendary Midtown Manhattan delicatessen first opened in 1937. For nearly 80 years, it served traditional Jewish food like matzo ball soup, potato latkes, and lox and cream cheese sandwiches to New Yorkers, but the deli’s one-pound pastrami on rye and corned beef sandwiches put it on the map.

The flagship Carnegie Deli closed in 2016, and the Bethlehem location followed soon after in 2017 when you’re craving a sandwich that could feed a family or a bowl of Jewish penicillin (Matza ball soup), pop over to the kiosk inside of —AKA, the last remaining Carnegie Deli location.