Brooklyn, NY - Downtown Kosher Deli Closing

Pastrami Box, a downtown Brooklyn fixture for almost 10 years, will dole out its last round of lunchtime sandwiches today, and will soon give way to a new Chinese food restaurant, the victim of rising rents and dwindling customers.

The Board of Education left this area and the business keeps on going down a lot, said owner Mikel Domgjoni, 42. All the court lawyers come in just for 30 minutes a day, and after that nobody comes in, "The street changed. Livingston is dead now."

The owner couldn't afford to pay many employees at the deli on Livingston St. - so he cooked, washed dishes and manned the cash register himself. But the $5,800 rent proved to be too much, along with taxes and electric bills, which brought the monthly upkeep to $28,000, he said, adding: "I can't pay that with hot dogs and knishes."

on Friday afternoon, the deli's solitary customer was dismayed to hear the bad news. "It's the only kosher deli in the area," said attorney Bob Ugelow, 60, who was enjoying a sandwich on his lunch break. "It's a shame."

U/D:
From now on, if you are paying a ticket in downtown Brooklyn or for any other reason and you're looking for a kosher deli near the courthouse. Enter Baruch Yehuda Ganz, who took the venerable New York push cart and made it Kosher. Try the falafel balls or a knish. He just east of Court St, open from noon to 3:30pm on weekday Kwik Kosher