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Finding The Self-Proclaimed Inventor Of The ‘Roni Cup’ On Knickerbocker Avenue

A saucy pizza drama is reborn on Knickerbocker Avenue.

Finding The Self-Proclaimed Inventor Of The ‘Roni Cup’ On Knickerbocker Avenue

Finding The Self-Proclaimed Inventor Of The ‘Roni Cup’ On Knickerbocker Avenue

A saucy pizza drama is reborn on Knickerbocker Avenue.

Finding The Self-Proclaimed Inventor Of The ‘Roni Cup’ On Knickerbocker Avenue

Frank Badali had been making pizza for quite some time. According to the man himself, he had gotten into the line of work at the age of 14, when his father told him that he better go find a job and he did, at a corner pizzeria in Bensonhurst. Badali’s’ pie-making later took him to Staten Island and, following that, the great floating pie in the Hudson. But lately, Badali has returned to his home of Brooklyn, which has found him working out of a refashioned warehouse on the tip of Knickerbocker Avenue under the geographically spurious sobriquet “Original Square of Soho.”

Where in Soho did these squares comes from? Both the menu and Badali himself say directly from his former employers at the well-known Prince…

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