Bamonte's
32 Withers Street | Williamsburg | built 1920
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- 1900
Pasquale Bamonte opens Liberty Hall, a banquet hall and meeting place that becomes Bamonte's
Pasquale Bamonte and his wife settled in Williamsburg after emigrating from Salerno, Italy, and opened Liberty Hall in 1900. It started as a banquet hall and meeting place and later became Bamonte's. His grandson Anthony Bamonte took ownership in the late 1960s.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2009
A probation officer bars mobster Anthony Rabito from returning to Bamonte's and other restaurants
After Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito of the Bonanno crime family left federal prison in 2009, his probation officer banned him from several Italian restaurants in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. Bamonte's, said to have been a mob hangout, was on the list.
“In 2009, after he was released from a federal penitentiary, Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito of the Bonanno crime family, was forbidden by his probation officer…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2021
Condé Nast Traveler names Bamonte's one of New York City's 21 best Italian restaurants
In 2021 the family-run restaurant at 32 Withers Street made Condé Nast Traveler's list of the city's 21 best Italian restaurants. Anthony Bamonte still runs it, with his three daughters, Lisa, Laura and Nicole.
“In 2021, Bamonte's was named one of NYC's 21 best Italian restaurants by Condé Nast Traveler.”
Source: Wikipedia
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