No Soup for Madoff

There’s something very compelling about Tyler’s interactive maps of Madoff victims’ addresses. One spot in particular jumped out at me: what on earth was a Madoff victim doing on Delancey Street? It turns out, tragically, that Ratner’s deli — the legendarily grumpy Lower East Side institution which closed way back in 2000 and is now a Sleepy’s store — was a Madoff investor. It’s clearly not been a good decade for the Harmatz family.