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There used to be a deli downstairs, but they closed, and sometimes I saw people hanging out in the alley. Mostly Mexicans, and Koreans smoking from the other Restaurant around the corner, but that was more of a sit-down diner place. The old deli was a butcher shop too, so you could buy sliced meat, and cheeses, and they baked bread there to make sandwiches, but you bought them to go. They didn’t have tables, just seats to sit on if there was a line, and they were really popular for lunch, especially. Then, they moved during the Lockdown, and they put the address on the door, but I’d never been to the new place to see if they had tables or not. The diner stayed open, late but they threw out the garbage, and …