New York pizza is the best. Fuck Chicago and any other city that thinks that they make a better pie than us. Just today, Bushwick’s Roberta’s pizza got two stars from Sam Sifton in the New York Times’ dining section. So needless to say, we take our pizza very seriously — some more than others. Read more »
For as long as the mob has been operating within the United States, it has used pizza joints, butcher shops, cafes, etc. as front business for their illegal endeavors. I know this because I’ve watched every episode of The Sopranos. So I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Ray’s Pizza on Prince Street, the very first of the city’s 8 million Ray’s Pizza joints, was a longtime front for mobster Ralph Cuomo’s billion-dollar heroin trafficking enterprise, and since he died last year there’s been a whole bunch of fighting over who gets control of the restaurant. Now, one of the parties involved is breaking with mob oath and taking a disagreement into the court system. This cannot end well. Read more »
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