Overview
- Zabar’s announced Stanley Zabar’s death on the store’s Instagram, calling him a “quiet force behind our family business.”
- He ran the shop’s legal and financial affairs for decades and was credited with helping turn his parents’ 1934 deli into a widely known specialty food market.
- The New York Times reported that he died of cancer, citing his daughter, though the store’s social post did not specify a cause.
- Stanley’s passing follows the death of his brother and longtime co-owner Saul Zabar about a year earlier, leaving the family store at a key moment in its leadership history.
- The store remains centered at West 80th Street and Broadway and no public funeral plans or long-term succession details have been announced.