Andrew Janoff, a thirty-five-year-old e-commerce manager who lives on the Upper West Side, spent much of last year in a neighborhood dispute with Zabar’s, the venerable appetizing store on Broadway. That’s his version. When asked about Janoff, Scott Goldshine, the general manager of Zabar’s, said, “I don’t know who he is.”
It’s an art-related dustup. On West Seventy-ninth Street, on the wall of a former Designer Shoe Warehouse, a block south of Zabar’s, is a stencil by the British street artist Banksy. Known as the Zabar’s Banksy, it is likely the last remaining public Banksy in New York, created during the artist’s monthlong residency, in 2013. The other few dozen New York Banksys have been variously covered over, defaced, sealed in private collections, or auctioned off.
One evening last summer,…