hospitality / Culture / New York. A sandwich to celebrate the first subway
By: Samuel Delziani
Delicatessen and Alidoro of Katz teamed up this fall with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), responsible for public transportation in New York City, to create the 1904 sandwich. of the big apple subway was opened. On October 27, the city will celebrate the 118th anniversary of this event. In fact, on October 27, 1904, the city’s first underground railway line was put into service in New York (there were already some overhead lines).
The first subway, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRTC), connected City Hall to Grand Central as well as Times Square and Broadway in Harlem and served 28 stations. The IRT network was quickly supplemented by two other competing networks: that of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), also privately owned, and that of the independent subway system (IND) created by the city of New York. In 1940, these three networks were merged into the same entity forming the basis of the current metro network. MTA chairman Janno Lieber, CEO and owner of Alidoro owner Jon Streep and Katz owner Jake Dell were on hand on September 29 at the Moynihan Train Hall, near the Alidoro store to throw a lot of fanfare on this sandwich. Located on 81st Street, across from New York Penn Station in James A. Farley’s stunning historic post building, the Moyni – Han Train Hall is home to many Amtrak trains as well as the Long Island Railroad.
The sandwich is a hymn to the gastronomic culture of the city. It consists of pastrami, beef breast placed in brine, then smoked from katz, confit garlic cream, coleslaw with Calabrian pepper and provolone. It is served hot on a fresh leavened baguette to measure for this collaboration.
The packaging depicts a Metro map inspired by Massimo Vignelli and features the locations of Alidoro’s restaurants, where the sandwich is offered for sale. A QR code directs customers to sandwich information. The sandwich sells for $ 14 alone, or $ 17 willfulLars in an MTA Away Lunchbox version, the sandwich is then accompanied by a cookie and a packet of chips.
This article is taken from Number 3907 of La Vie du Rail.
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