Saul Zabar, the man who ran the world famous Zabar’s market on the Upper West Side for 70 years, died Tuesday. He was 97.

Zabar had been hospitalized with a brain bleed , his daughter Ann told the New York Times.

Throughout New York City and across the world, Zabar’s remains known for its top quality fish, flavorful coffee and specialty breads and cheeses. But the man in charge got there by accident.

“I started here in 1950, when my father died ,” Zabar told the Daily News in 2008. “I thought I would spend a few years here and then go on about my business. Because I wasn’t really interested in this business, it was not something that I had imagined I would be involved with. But that year grew…”

As the business grew, and Zabar’s time there with it, he became one of the city’s defi

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