Eating out classic New York style: in Preview's 2000 edition, late Art Business News Columnist Emmett Murphy took us back 100 years to restaurants that have been around since the last millennium. These New York City dining classics are still going strong, and in celebration of a classic show, here is a list of some classic restaurants

Art Business News, Dec, 2002 by Emmett Murphy

KATZ'S DELICATESSEN

205 East Houston Street at Ludlow (212) 254-2246 $ Mostly cash

Located in the heart of the Lower East Side, Katz's is to the deli world what Disney World is to amusement parks. Here we're not talking chateaubriand and Kobe steaks, but briskets of beef and hot pastrami sandwiches the size of combat boots. Forget the beaujolais or chardonnay and go with the celery soda that's been on the menu since 1888. If there's gray in your hair, you may get a lump in your throat at the sight of the sign reading "send a salami to your boy in the army."

P.J. CLARKE'S

915 Third Avenue at 55th Street (212) 759-1650 $$ All major credit cards

This venerable public house opened in the early 1900's. During the decades following, the Third Avenue El shadowed the neighborhood, and it served mostly politicians, policemen and local hoipoloi. Then, Ray Milland appeared with a portable typewriter under his arm and did for Clarke's what John Sloan did for McSorley's. The Lost Weekend won Academy Awards for best picture, best director and best actor in 1945, and ever since the front room drinking zone has looked like the Raffles Bar on the Chinese New Year. But once you get into the back room, history, drink and food can be savored in that order of importance.

Emmett Murphy, who passed away in February of 2001, was a fixture of Artexpo and a beloved columnist for Art Business News for nearly 20 years. As we celebrate 25 years of Artexpo, the editors and show organizers would like to pay tribute to Emmett, a true art classic.