On most nights at the newly opened Rosie Pizza Bar on Central Avenue in Bushwick, it’s common to spot passerby entering and asking the same, peculiar question: “Oh wait, is Archie’s back?” After being handed a gentle – but firm – no, they generally stumble out, no less confused than when they came.
“You don’t know the number of times I’ve been asked that,” the bartender says, shaking his head, and the general manager – who used to held work the same job a year ago at Archie’s – asks me, in a tired voice, “is this going to be a story about Rosie or a story about Archie’s?”
Giulio Adriani, among the two owners of the new Rosie Pizza, which sits now where Archie’s used to sit, is possibly the man least familiar with the pizzeria that shuttered last year, after over 30 women accused its co-owner of mistreatment and sexual misconduct.
“I wouldn’t know, I’ve never…
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