Beef Brisket Sandwich with Quick Spicy Pickle Spears

I’ve been a fan of the Second Avenue Deli since I started living in New York City in 1978. Abe Lebewohl started a tiny luncheonette on the corner of Second Avenue and East 10th Street in 1954, and it prospered and expanded. After Abe’s tragic murder/robbery in 1996, his family kept the deli alive. Today it’s still prospering, albeit in a new location on East 33rd Street and a recently opened branch on the Upper East Side - and there’s