au revoir, L and A Pizza
11222 reader Don writes in to report of the demise of this neighborhood institution:
Did you see that L and A Pizza on Manhattan Ave closed. Very sad day in Greenpoint. They must have been there for 30+ years. Can't wait for another dollar store.
My response was that I doubted we'd actually get something as useful as a dollar store.
L and A Pizza was great. We lived on their $10 pizza on Tuesdays when we were broke. It's too bad that they couldn't capitalize on the influx of people to the neighborhood.
So Miss Heather reports that Greenpoint is *not* getting a Ricky's, which leaves that space on Manhattan (formerly a dollar store and a check cashing place) open, and the former hardware store across the street (in the same building as the former Noble Yoga [which, btw, is now a residential loft, whose legality I kinda question, but I could be wrong, haven't checked the zoning]) is still for rent.
And finally, I saw the locks being changed on the former William Taft Diner. Maybe another hapless tenant will be taking that space??