A man walks with his belongings in a shopping cart across the street from Langer’s Deli near MacArthur Park on Aug. 21. To the editor: Your articles about Langer’s Deli and the sad state of the area around MacArthur Park are of interest to me, as our family was subject to the same issues more than 30 years ago. Our …
Langer’s deli owner Norm Langer said he’s tired of cajoling city officials to clean the streets, restore public safety and make MacArthur Park a destination again. 19 “the world’s best sandwich.” It’s hard to imagine Los Angeles without Langer’s. But Langer told Lopez he’s “tired of pushing the cart up the hill,” of cajoling city officials to clean the streets, …
When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. Norm Langer, owner of Langer’s, says he’s upset with multiple festering public safety issues in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. “I’m considering closing,” Langer told me, even though he considers his customers and …
19 sandwich at Langer’s: pastrami and Swiss cheese with coleslaw and Russian dressing. In 1991, Jonathan Gold wrote in The Times: “The fact is inescapable: Langer’s probably serves the best pastrami sandwich in America.” In 2002, Nora Ephron went farther, declaring unequivocally in the New Yorker that Langer’s made the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world. “Everybody needs a …
