I was just reminiscing with some friends from Yonkers, where I grew up and my family has lived since the 1890’s. We were remembering a legendary Italian deli and sandwich store called Landi’s, on Willow Street right down the block from Yonkers High School. I know it was there in the ‘50’s and lasted I think until ‘86 when Frank Landi died. It was a small, none-too-clean place but they had the best “wedges” I have ever eaten in my life, and I’m now 65.
Part of it was the bread from the Willow Sunny Italian bakery across the street, and the other part was the dirt under Frank’s fingernails. Or so my older cousin who first took me there claimed. He went to Yonkers High in the late 50’s/early 60’s and went there every day for lunch. Then he turned me and my other younger cousins onto it around 1970. And this tiny, nondescript store had lines of people waiting for their wedges every day for 30 or more years.
Anyone else from Yonkers, da Bronx or lower Westchester old enough to remember Landi’s?
All Hail, Landi's!!! See... look what you started!
Landi's Deli Facebbok page - ( New Window )
Anyone I Kinect who ever went to Landi’s immediately became devotees.
It's what people is Westchester County call a hero or sub.
Or at least they used to. I don't hear to so much anymore with all the transplants in the past 25 years.
Good stuff from them!
All Hail, Landi's!!! See... look what you started!
Lol...my 91 year old mother in law still pronounces sandwich as "sang-wedge"...can't correct her, either!
What do you play GA5? And do you go to shows at the Cap in Portchester?
We were in Landis a few times, good stuff
I always wondered where the name started, great story!
I moved to Brooklyn in 1994 and ordered a "wedge" in the neighborhood deli, the guy literally yelled "A what?!?"
So I was like "ummm a hero?"
"Coming right up!"
Didn't make that mistake again.
I went to PS 16, then PS 21.
Pizza, on the other hand, is all right up there.
I had no idea, growing up in W Co., that its use was so limited. It was always just a wedge.
Because if you ask for a "heavy wedge" in Maryland, the deli guy won't have any idea what you are trying to order.
Pizza, on the other hand, is all right up there.
What does North Jersey have to do with "wedge" when its an NY thing? Correct, Taylor is the brand name of pork roll
Scotties?
I grew up in jersey, it was sub. Moved to philly and it's hoagie or grinder. Then moved to staten island and hero is preffered but sub is fine. Now I am in rockland county and it's only hero.
It's very very annoying.
I don't think that I knew you grew up in Eastchester. I have some very good friends from Union College who grew up in Eastchester, HS Class of '72. What year were you?
I didn’t grow up in Eastchester...I grew up in Bronxville right next door, but I played soccer in Eachester, and we had to head up To Eastchester to get a decent wedge! I’m a bit younger - class of ‘97.
Hope you’re hanging in there with all of this craziness!