--- title: Carnegie Deli: New York City Institution Set to Close description: The Carnegie Deli is closing on Friday after 79 years of dishing out slabs of cured meat on rye and knishes canonical: https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-30T14:45:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:46.980Z og:title: New York City's Iconic Carnegie Deli Closes at Midnight og:description: The tourists' pitstop will serve its last sandwich on Friday og:url: https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c9c29b0e5d7a9b4/6988b4302dce01a0f99ebd12/carnegie-del-closing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Carnegie Deli og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New York City's Iconic Carnegie Deli Closes at Midnight twitter:description: The tourists' pitstop will serve its last sandwich on Friday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c9c29b0e5d7a9b4/6988b4302dce01a0f99ebd12/carnegie-del-closing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New York City's Iconic Carnegie Deli Closes at Midnight by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Dec 30, 2016 2:45 PM UTC  People wait in line to eat at the Carnegie Deli in New York, on Dec. 29, 2016\. After 79 years of serving up heaps of cured meat, the Carnegie slices its last ridiculously oversized sandwich Friday. People wait in line to eat at the Carnegie Deli in New York, on Dec. 29, 2016\. After 79 years of serving up heaps of cured meat, the Carnegie slices its last ridiculously oversized sandwich Friday.Seth Wenig—AP by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Dec 30, 2016 2:45 PM UTC The [Carnegie Deli](http://carnegiedeli.com/menus/sandwiches-deli-classics/) is closing on Friday after 79 years of dishing out slabs of cured meat on rye and knishes for tourists and pleasure-seeking New Yorkers. The Midtown Manhattan deli, which featured photos of the celebrities who had eaten there and earned its time on the silver screen in Woody Allen’s 1984 _Broadway Danny Rose_, was a pitstop for tourists looking for knishes, cheesecake, chopped liver, or a $20 pastrami sandwich. Owner Marian Harper said she was closing Carnegie Deli in order to take personal time. The restaurant also was forced to pay $2.6 million in backpay to employees in a labor dispute and was closed for nearly a year after an investigation into a possible illegal gas hookup. The New York institution will serve its last sandwich and shutter its doors at midnight on Friday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/"},"headline":"New York City's Iconic Carnegie Deli Closes at Midnight","datePublished":"2016-12-30T14:45:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:46.980Z","description":"The tourists' pitstop will serve its last sandwich on Friday","url":"https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/","keywords":["Newsfeed","cities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c9c29b0e5d7a9b4/6988b4302dce01a0f99ebd12/carnegie-del-closing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c9c29b0e5d7a9b4/6988b4302dce01a0f99ebd12/carnegie-del-closing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Carnegie Deli","caption":"Carnegie Deli","creditText":"Seth Wenig—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4619824/carnegie-deli-new-york-city/","name":"New York City's Iconic Carnegie Deli Closes at Midnight"}}]}] ```