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From Today's New York Times Metro Section
January 11, 2006 If Second Avenue Deli Reopens, It Won't Be Where It Was By ANDY NEWMAN and COLIN MOYNIHAN
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Any lingering hopes that the Second Avenue Deli might reopen sometime soon were carted away yesterday, along with the sign, the awning and much of the kitchen equipment.
The deli's owner, Jack Lebewohl, facing a scheduled $9,000-a-month rent increase, closed shop on New Year's Day, saying he might reopen if he could negotiate a lower rent. Yesterday, as workers dismantled the temple of corned beef that his brother founded 51 years ago, Mr. Lebewohl said the deli was now history, at least at its first and only location at the corner of Second Avenue and 10th Street.
He said he did not know what would come next.
"Everything is on the table," Mr. Lebewohl said as he stood beneath the metal skeleton that the awning once covered. "Everything is a possibility."
Mr. Lebewohl said last week that he had received offers from potential landlords elsewhere in the city. But he said yesterday that he planned to give away some of the deli's signature decorations - a big clock with Hebrew numerals to his synagogue and a mirrored sign with the name of his brother, Abe Lebewohl, who was murdered in 1996, to Abe's children.
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The fate of the old sign with the word "deli" spelled out in light bulbs is uncertain, Mr. Lebewohl said.
There is other unfinished business. A principal of one of the companies that own the building, Martin Newman, said that Mr. Lebewohl owed $107,000 in back rent and other charges and that eviction proceedings had begun even before the deli closed.
Mr. Newman said that the future of the 2,800-square-foot space (with a full basement) remained to be seen. "Traditionally in Manhattan, restaurants pay the highest rent per square foot," he said. "Whether it will go to another use, I don't know."
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A legendary institution may have died, but in the commercial real estate business, the period of mourning is notably brief.
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"We are getting calls from operators interested in taking over the space," Mr. Newman said. "Some of them are kosher deli operators."
