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Comments (0) So my favorite area Pizzeria ended up being bought out, and I’m not really a fan of the new people. It got me to thinking of growing up, and for a really Italian neighborhood in NYC we really didn’t have that many Pizza places in the area. The main one, called Nunzio’s, had been around since the beginning of time. It looked like a relic of the 50′s surrounded by newer buildings. But it was good and popular. There was also LaRocca’s Italian Ices and Pizza.
You see the problem was that Nunzio’s was too popular. There was always a huge wait for anything. LaRocca’s was a bit better, but it was closed in the winter and tended to get long lines too. So there would always be one or two pizzerias that would come and go. That is until LaRocca’s decided to go year round. Between the two of them they put just about everyone in the area out of business. I never did like LaRocca’s though, the family that owned it were a bunch of douches to the Nth degree.
So it ended up that we were always trying to find new places to get pizza from as the old ones closed. The funniest thing growing up was that a Little Caesar’s actually opened up half a block away from Nunzio’s. Needless to say they got lucky because the first few months Nunzio’s was closed for repair, but as soon as Nunzio’s re-opened Little Caesar’s was a ghost town.
LaRocca’s saving grace was the Italian Ices. Otherwise it would have went down the same as everyone else in the area did. Although I am always surprised that more people didn’t add Italian Ices to their menu wit the success LaRocca’s had. It was so painful to wait in that line forever and then find out that the flavor you wanted. That happened far too often. Dam you people and your love of Mint Chocolate Chip!
There was also Goodfella’s Pizza, not in my area but close enough for pickup. They’ve won a whole bunch of awards, but I have no idea why. Their plain pizza was horrible. I hate when places use a ton of sauce and just put Islands of cheese in it. Supposedly their specialty pizzas won the awards, but if you can’t get a plain pizza right your a jerkoff. That and everyone I knew who actually had pizza there on a regular basis had horrible taste in pizza.
So every year or two there would be a place I liked, and eventually it would run out of business. It was funny because you could tell how desperate a place was by how much they loved you when you came in. Some of these places you could have mistaken me for the second coming of christ. I still say they had good pizza, just horrible location. A lot of independent places went out of business while I was growing up. It’s so annoying having to find another place with good food. So few places get it right.
