New York Sub to close at the end of February
Nick Rallo
The real estate market continues to be a challenge for the restaurant industry in Dallas. New York Sub cut straight to the chase on a Facebook post on New Year’s Day. A photo of the restaurant with the words “That’s All Folks” in red across the top announced plans for the new year.
“After 53 years of first dates, post-game meals, and late-night study breaks, New York Sub is losing its home at 3411 Asbury Street at the end of February.”
Owner Andrew Kelly explained that negotiations with their new landlord are not going well. “We simply can’t make the new financial terms work,” he writes in the post.
New York Sub originally opened in 1974 and has been a local sandwich shop serving generations of families in the area around SMU.
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How to Help
Kelly has posted several ways customers and the community can help either go out with a bang or keep the dream alive.
First of all, they want to find a new home in the SMU/Park Cities area. If you have a lead on a broker, investor, landlord or space, let them know.
They also want customers to help keep their story alive by posting their own New York Sub story online. And, of course, come by and have another sandwich before the end of February (and post it online).
A Sub Story
Kelly took over (reopened, technically) the spot in 2016 after the original owner, Ken Harkness, closed it in 2014. Kelly, who grew up eating here, had experience in the restaurant industry, as a chef at the Ritz in Chicago, and upgraded the menu and polished the interior before reopening. He made sure to preserve the one thing that got them through 40 years: the New York-style sandwich. As Nick Rallo wrote in this ode to sandwiches, “It’s good. Damn good.”
In 2020, we anointed the New York-style hot dog here the best in the city. “Historically, it is difficult to sell a hot dog in Dallas, so we figured, if we’re going to do it, they might as well be the best,” Kelly said of his dog. The juicy street meat made with Angus beef is topped with shredded sauerkraut and brown mustard.
You have about two months to go see for yourself.