LINDY’S. 1626 Broadway, at the northwest corner of Broadway and 51st Street.
Lindy’s was the best known and greatest of the Broadway delicatessens. Leo Lindemann and his wife Clara met when Lindy was a busboy in Clara’s father’s restaurant, the
Palace Cafe
, at 47th Street and Broadway. They opened Lindy’s on August 20, 1921. Broadway’s lighting was all gold and silvery then,
Leo recalled. But mostly silvery—more like a Great White Way.
The deli was...