Manganaro

In 1989, State Supreme Court Justice, Harold Baer Jr., ruled that both businesses could continue using the name Manganaro, but he barred the grocery from using the name Manganaro when marketing hero sandwiches.

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An academic paper in 1967 by Howard Robboy, a sociologist now at the College of New Jersey, traced one possible origin of the hero sandwich to Mr. Manganaro and Mr. Petrucci, both immigrants from Naples Another possible origin for the hero was New Orleans.

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The two brothers say they haven't discussed the impending sales of the original Manganaro's building, and have no plans to do so.

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As Prohibition took effect in 1919, his nephew James Manganaro, and Sal Dell'Orto's uncle, took over the space and changed the name to Maganaro's.

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Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal The long-time owner of Manganaro's, Salvatore Dell'Orto Mr. Dell'Orto said he had "five daughters, no sons" and after he fell ill last year he was concerned that his daughters would be "taken advantage of" in running the Grosseria business on their own.

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The original Manganaro's, an Italian grocery and restaurant that traces its roots to the 1890s and helped launch the hero sandwich, will soon close its doors.

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Joanna Manganaro, women's editor at Stylesight, a fashion-research firm, said that while high-waisted pants aren't "necessarily for everyone at the moment," she does expect them to eventually trickle down beyond the super slim "uberfashionistas" already wearing them.

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Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal The storefront circa the 1880s Manganaro's dates to 1893, when Ernest Petrucci opened a wine and spirits store on the site at 488 Ninth Ave. near 37th Street that also sold olive oil and groceries.

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A separate, more modern sandwich shop next door, Manganaro's Hero-Boy, run by one of the brothers, will continue to operate.

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Relations deteriorated after the grocery, struggling to gain revenue, began advertising a "Manganaro's Hero Party Hotline" that competed for party-size hero orders in 1980.

Eatery Closes After Decades-Long Family Spat Josh Barbanel 2011