Workers have been busy inside the former Funkiberry froyo space on Third Avenue and East 12th Street. This past week, an EVG reader saw workers bringing in "regular, not wood burning, ovens." A worker also told EVG correspondent Steven that the space was to become a pizzeria. Not sure at the moment who the tenant will be.
Probably would have made sense to leave the pizza ovens intact after AAA (New) Amici Pizza got RentHikeitis and closed in July 2013. The corner space had been home to at least two pizzerias before this.
F-berry closed in March 2015 after nine months in business.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Stuff that you can't make up: More FroYo for the East Village
Ghost signage uncovered on Third Avenue and East 12th Street
DOUBLE ghost signage discovered at 88 3rd Ave.
Hey, the Funkiberry sign is up on 3rd Avenue
Hey, Funkiberry is now open on 3rd Avenue
Hey, the Funkiberry space is for lease on 3rd Avenue
Hey, the Funkiberry closed on 3rd Avenue
11 comments:
Uncle Vinny's pizza spirit hovers.
Pizza!!! This is good! Well, as long as it's decent pizza and not 99 cent pizza. Fingers crossed!
A bright spot on a grey morning. Thanks for the tip, EVG.
Is there anything more New York than buying a pizza slice and eating if you wish while walking to your next destination? Fro-yo people always looked for someplace to sit and discuss food trends or something banal like that. Pizza rules, ok.
Even 99 cent pizza is better that a fro-gurt shack. For many reasons, including what @8:41 said.
Yeah, but is it pizza in a hoof?
I hope it's a real NYC slice not 99 cent bullshit.
Really an interesting thing how they raised the rent so much on a longstanding pizzeria, dealt with all the turnover and changes and paperwork and bullshit, and now it's a pizzeria again.
Let this be a lesson to idiot landlords
"RentHikeitis". I will now nominate that as one of those words that gets added to the dictionary each year. Was that a run-on sentence?
@12:27
How do we know that the landlord isn't collecting higher rent on the new pizzeria? Just because one guy doesn't think he can be profitable doesn't mean a new guy doesn't think it will work.
The first pizzeria at that location was closed because somebody was knifed to death -- about 30 years ago?
And Amici pizza really was a good neighbor place. Still miss those guys.
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