John Moskowitz had spent his youth working at Jerry Joseph’s now-shuttered restaurant of the same name in Soho, notable for its French fries and closed to make room for a Michael Kors.
He moved to LA and tried to make it in television (writing briefly for the CBS hit show “Blue Bloods”) and then moved back and tried to make it with restaurants, opening a small corner bar-slash-café called Little King in Williamsburg, which won acclaim for its “cute bathrooms.” In this, he found success and it brought Moskowitz and partner Sam Esterman to a hilly corner of Bushwick, next to the “conspicuously unpretty” Bogart Hotel and conspicuously close to Roberta’s, that local dining bastion where people wait in hour-long lines for pizza.
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