What used to be a staid ((adj.) sedate, serious, self-restrained) New York neighbourhood is now home to trendy new bars and restaurants – without losing its original character• 10 of the best hidden bars and restaurants in New YorkFor 78 years,the Schaller & Weber deli – standing among brick tenements and postwar tall-rises on a heavily trafficked, unprepossessing corner of the Upper East Side – has sold fatty kielbasa smoked sausage and Black Forest ham to the remnants of the neighbourhood’s German population.
Like many businesses here in Yorkville – an Upper East Side micro-neighbourhood on the eastern, and less fashionable side of Manhattan – Schaller & Weber knew its audience: would-be grandes dames in rent-controlled apartments along York Avenue,young families attracted by Yorkville’s low rents who are willing to place up with its destitute transport links, and the odd bachelor banker trying to stay close to the Upper East Side proper.
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Source: theguardian.com