Joe's Pizza
7 Carmine Street | West Village | built 1894
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- 1893
Anna Sutherland has A. B. Ogden & Son design a five-story French flat with shops below
Owner Anna Sutherland hired the firm A. B. Ogden & Son in 1893 to design a Renaissance Revival apartment building with two storefronts, and it was finished the next year. The walls are iron-spot brick with brownstone sills and lintels. The flats were built as the neighborhood's row houses were being demolished for tenements and apartment buildings for newcomers and laborers.
- 1975
Pino Pozzuoli, an immigrant from Naples, founds Joe's Pizza on Carmine Street
Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli, who came from Naples, opened Joe's Pizza in 1975 near the corner of Carmine and Bleecker Streets. The shop sells only pizza, by the slice or as a whole pie. It closed briefly in 2005 and reopened, and it has since added branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn and other cities.
“Joe's was founded in 1975 by Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli, an Italian immigrant originally from Naples, Italy…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
Spider-Man 2 makes Joe's Pizza the place where Peter Parker gets fired
In the 2004 film Spider-Man 2, directed by Sam Raimi, Peter Parker works as a delivery boy at Joe's Pizza and loses the job for chronic lateness caused by his double life. The pizzeria gained fame from the cameo, and several of its branches advertise it. It had already appeared in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto III, though players cannot go inside.
“In the 2004 film, Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker works at Joe's Pizza as a delivery boy, but is fired due to his constant tardiness…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2010
A court orders a rival Joe's Pizza to stop passing itself off as the Carmine Street original
Joe's Pizza at 7 Carmine Street, owned by Pino Pozzuoli, went to court in 2010 against a rival that also called itself Joe's Pizza. Giuseppe Vitale, whom Pozzuoli hired in 1981 and whose marriage to Pozzuoli's daughter ended in 2004, had opened shops called Joe's Pizza of Bleecker Street and trademarked both names in 2007. In late December 2010 a preliminary injunction ordered Vitale's shops to stop implying a link to the original, though they could keep the name for the time being.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2011
Conan O'Brien visits Joe's Pizza to learn how to make a New York pie
In 2011 Conan O'Brien came to Joe's for an episode of his TBS talk show, hoping to learn how real New York pizza is made. The shop kept turning up on screen afterward, in the Marvel series Jessica Jones and Iron Fist and, in 2022, as a food truck in a promotion for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
“In 2011, Joe's Pizza made an appearance in an episode of Conan on TBS, when host Conan O'Brien visited in order to learn how to make authentic New York City pizza…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
Joe's Pizza, a family business at 7 Carmine, opens a branch on East 14th Street
In July 2013 Village Preservation noted that Joe's Pizza had served the neighborhood since 1976, first at the corner of Bleecker and Carmine Streets and now at 7 Carmine. The family had just opened a new shop at 150 East 14th Street. Joe's grandson Sal said they never considered the Upper East Side or Brooklyn, and the post called the business an immigrant success story across three generations.
Source: Village Preservation
Further reading
- Joe's PizzaWikipedia
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