tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post266386283722197168..comments2024-03-28T13:07:39.342-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Ugh: The 110-year-old DeRobertis Pasticceria and Caffe closes after Dec. 5Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-45034361084795327442014-12-01T16:03:33.503-05:002014-12-01T16:03:33.503-05:00Could have kept the business going longer if they ...Could have kept the business going longer if they hired a cleaner, and hired a consulting pastry chef to revamp the offerings to use modern techniques like butter, sugar, real fruit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-39590441315228889092014-11-26T09:45:01.443-05:002014-11-26T09:45:01.443-05:00All I know is their Pastries Blew. Who cares that ...All I know is their Pastries Blew. Who cares that they're going.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-13237400208826193512014-11-26T01:41:00.738-05:002014-11-26T01:41:00.738-05:00DeRoberti closing is a mirror of American society,...DeRoberti closing is a mirror of American society, and its under appreciation of culture or history. Even more, it reveals the utter lack of imagination this wonderful little period piece of a café inspires. Quaintly shabby, it is 100% genuine and so out of place in a chrome, plastic GMO world. It's time matches its beautiful sister church that was just torn down on 12th St. Its not just the end of another last century- but the last millennia too. Sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-38355469111690973882014-11-25T23:24:04.859-05:002014-11-25T23:24:04.859-05:00It wasn't the pastry shop, it was the parking ...It wasn't the pastry shop, it was the parking meters that were bugged by the feds. The fellas would hang out outside resting their hands on the meters standing there talking about the day's actions/activities. Nowadays the feds are much smarter they put their mikes and cameras in all of our home appliances checking up on all of us. Oh, how times have changed!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-82589663706346091192014-11-25T17:05:04.174-05:002014-11-25T17:05:04.174-05:00the Real new york is dying. soon it will be one b...the Real new york is dying. soon it will be one big mini mall of big box stores and people running past each other with their smart phones. what happened to cutting edge fashion, creative people and good food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-88462452666401478242014-11-25T15:14:49.613-05:002014-11-25T15:14:49.613-05:00FigKitty - All of the above and more.
Nearly all o...FigKitty - All of the above and more.<br />Nearly all of today's citizenry, can fit under that description. It is the sensibility and taste of the era in which we now live.<br /><br />Anon @ 12:30 - True. But as the sign in front of Eisenberg's on 5th ave says,"Either you get it, or you dont".<br /><br />As depressin' as Derobertis closing is, once we lost Gino's on 60th or Manganaro's on 37th, it almost seems like everything else dont even matter.<br />It's over.<br />Tony Maroninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-58974791046368046592014-11-25T13:55:30.727-05:002014-11-25T13:55:30.727-05:00To the DeRobertis Family;
Thanks for the years an...To the DeRobertis Family;<br /><br />Thanks for the years and years of wonderful treats and fond memories. You'll always be remembered as a cornerstone of the LES, and I will miss your espresso ices terribly.<br /><br />Ciao.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-27066395888630679972014-11-25T13:52:56.631-05:002014-11-25T13:52:56.631-05:00@November 24, 2014 at 9:50 PM
Who are you ? Paul...@November 24, 2014 at 9:50 PM<br /><br />Who are you ? Paulie Walnuts ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-73928934990797000562014-11-25T12:20:00.483-05:002014-11-25T12:20:00.483-05:00Re Anon 9:50 pm -- I agree with a lot of what you&...Re Anon 9:50 pm -- I agree with a lot of what you're saying. DeR was old school, in a way that a lot of kids today seem not to understand. But 9:03 am, above, is right too -- the windows were dusty, etc. <br />I'm disappointed that DeR didn't get with the times just the tiniest bit, widen their offerings, etc. The shop could have stayed alive that way. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-65746034398873109062014-11-25T09:03:30.814-05:002014-11-25T09:03:30.814-05:00This place was really awful. The pastries were li...This place was really awful. The pastries were like 110 years old. You can't really say the store front was anything special. The cakes in the window needed dusting. I hate the corporate gentrification of the neighborhood as much as anyone, but this place was gross.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-74932249251852948922014-11-25T07:37:09.748-05:002014-11-25T07:37:09.748-05:00I am just heartsick. I am just heartsick. Trixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977253360344959721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-68117673499005962212014-11-25T06:14:51.796-05:002014-11-25T06:14:51.796-05:00We have lived on Avenue A/11th St.
since 1977. Ou...We have lived on Avenue A/11th St. <br />since 1977. Our kids Ella and Miles <br />were born here. We have always been <br />big fans and supporters of DeRobertis.<br />This loss is a loss for mouse noses<br />everywhere! Where do I take my <br />granddaughter for her first cannoli?<br /> <br />Damn you, passage of time.Dan Moran Ru, Ella and Milesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-26133315177924086782014-11-25T05:11:38.431-05:002014-11-25T05:11:38.431-05:00The commenter at 9:50 gave me a chuckle. Are we no...The commenter at 9:50 gave me a chuckle. Are we now lamenting "sneakers and blue jean wearing, rock/dance music listening, ikea and Kmart shopping everyday modern citizens?" So, is the problem with the "new" EV:<br /><br />1) "Frat" bros and their "sorostitutes" (would love to understand this definition better sometime);<br />2) Tech nerds from MIT and CalTech who work at Google and Facebook;<br />3) NYU students (a quite diverse bunch, from my experience), or<br />4) Jerry Seinfeld?FigKittynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-13545916730345223512014-11-25T01:58:23.562-05:002014-11-25T01:58:23.562-05:00This saddens me greatly. I'm upset I can't...This saddens me greatly. I'm upset I can't go in for one last cannoli.<br />After December 5th, I highly recommend: www.fortunatobrothers.com SingleLindsReflexhttp://www.singlelindsreflex.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-1659405011858206422014-11-25T01:24:15.342-05:002014-11-25T01:24:15.342-05:00For the people who are angry about being lied to—&...For the people who are angry about being lied to—"We don't know," 'No, the building's not for sale," "We're not going anywhere,"—they always lie. They have to; what would you do?Scuba Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10326884503725331349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-90258481074581018842014-11-25T00:20:22.120-05:002014-11-25T00:20:22.120-05:00Heart. Breaking.
DeRobertis was a museum of past...Heart. Breaking. <br /><br />DeRobertis was a museum of pastry, a place to buy the same pastries that the guys who built the IRT ate. <br /><br />So, so sad. This closing hurts more than most. <br /><br />If the Tenement Museum had the money, buying would have been a bargain . . . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-41778135562778087002014-11-24T21:50:07.881-05:002014-11-24T21:50:07.881-05:00Meanwhile Veniero's down the street, prospers....Meanwhile Veniero's down the street, prospers. But unlike that industrial pasticceria plant, Derobertis kept their presentation and atmosphere, OLD SCHOOL. But in the end, THAT is exactly the problem. <br />We here may appreciate places like DeRobertis on various levels of nostalgia or quaintness or coolness, but truth is, there is no true appreciation for these kinds of places among the masses because aesthetically and contextually we live in a time where banal and cheap is the preference. If Derobertis was doing better business ( half the time they were empty) the family would most likely not have had to nor felt compelled to sell. <br />Truth is, business was BAD.<br />As a result of it's old school craftsmanship, look and principle, DeRobertis actually repeled more people than it attracted.<br />The majority of people today have no taste in how they dress, the music they listen to or how they live.<br />Places like these, in actuality, were built as a reflection of the active character and attentiveness of the types of people to whom it catered.<br />A more mature and formal and stylish kind of people.<br />When you didnt have to be rich or smug to have CLASS. <br /><br />Sneakers and blue jean wearing, rock/dance music listening, ikea and Kmart shopping everyday modern citizens have no connection to places like these. They can only seem them as objective relics, unable to actually relate to them as reflections of themselves.<br /><br />Think about that.<br /><br />Buona sera DeRobertis. You belong to another time and another kind of people.Tony Maroninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-82024665561941059652014-11-24T21:15:02.895-05:002014-11-24T21:15:02.895-05:00A huge stack of cash? 12 million dollars split bet...A huge stack of cash? 12 million dollars split between how many people? I don't call that a huge stack of cash. Not for that double building with stores. In the East Village? Not in this day and age. Trixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977253360344959721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-65699904185968802452014-11-24T19:10:33.769-05:002014-11-24T19:10:33.769-05:00Maybe I am a mercenary and selfish sort, but I can...Maybe I am a mercenary and selfish sort, but I can't blame anyone for trading a huge stack of cash for the hassle of running a business. I would do it in a second.<br /><br />As more and more of the cheap restaurants have disappeared, I find myself increasingly dependent on the KeyFood on A to eat eat eat. I wonder if anyone knows, are those individually owned or some corporate entity? Because if someone is actually back there keeping that place going, surely they will be someday soon be taking the 30 million dollars or whatever that big plot will appraise at. Rather than hassle sending back the bad cabbage and fighting with the union all day.<br />And then I will be hungry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-80396856889071493412014-11-24T18:23:29.181-05:002014-11-24T18:23:29.181-05:00Man, my Great Great Uncle Mario is flippin' in...Man, my Great Great Uncle Mario is flippin' in his grave over this stinkin' development....<br />but he didn't see nuttin', I tell 'ya.....NUTTIN!<br /><br /><br /><br />And Anon @5:04pm....Bakin' bread has always been the aroma of love.DrBOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07179469265158025584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-60323905074843193072014-11-24T18:22:40.331-05:002014-11-24T18:22:40.331-05:00Mafia influence is another aspect of small busines...Mafia influence is another aspect of small business, willing or unwilling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-3019463465143287812014-11-24T18:02:25.702-05:002014-11-24T18:02:25.702-05:00These old (104) businesses closing are like a deat...These old (104) businesses closing are like a death in the family in this case a death in the neighborhood's characater. No family business can go on forever so enjoy this place as much as you can in the next couple of weeks and enjoy the memories after that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-67547552007894744752014-11-24T17:14:35.497-05:002014-11-24T17:14:35.497-05:00I think part of the problem is that they never had...I think part of the problem is that they never had a lot of new customers going there when old customers died or moved away (like yourselves), especially tourists, e.g. Veniero's. First Ave Pierogi & Deli closed in much the same way. Be it not enough advertising, getting in guide books, or written up in reviews, all businesses face obsolescence if they don't innovate.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054721608005244454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-32797000634079549442014-11-24T17:04:09.913-05:002014-11-24T17:04:09.913-05:00My first love lived in a building on 11th street. ...My first love lived in a building on 11th street. A window in the loft faced the back of DeRobertis. When we were in bed the intoxicating smell of baking pastries would come in trough the window. Ever since then that smell has always been associated with love, happiness, and great sex. Wonderful memories! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-42165311551751795702014-11-24T16:25:17.398-05:002014-11-24T16:25:17.398-05:00Anonymous at 3:49 is absolutely correct. My inside...Anonymous at 3:49 is absolutely correct. My inside source had actually heard the tapes. I took this person for a coffee, and they said it was odd to see the place that they had only known in an audio context. For the record, this person indicated that DeRoberti's owners were not criminals. <br /><br />Slightly off topic (but also in response to Anonymous at 3:49), my marriage basically BEGAN at DeRobertis. My future wife and I were regulars when the old man (RIP) put me on the spot for not having made the move to tie the knot. It was definitely a factor in my decision to make it legal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com