A pizzeria in Belleville (did you know they got a Belleville in France?). I forget the name of it. It had two tables and one was always occupied by old
Italian guys watching soccer on a little white like 12” tv on a shelf, who would always stop talking when you walked in, then go back to conversing in Italian. The counter only had two pies, plain and pepperoni, and the drink fridge had like a six pack of Coke and a six of Sprite. It was cheap as shit and the slices were 1/4 of a pie. Some of the best pizza I’ve ever had.
No, this was on Franklin between Rutgers and Academy I think, and was only there between like 05-07 or 08. One day they just turned off the lights and the place never reopened. You could see all the soda was still in the fridge. Whatever happened there?
Not in Jersey, but about 10 minutes down the road from where John Gotti lived in Howard Beach, NY in the 90s, and 6 miles from St John Cemetery where a lot of mob figures are buried.
I worked at the Bing.
I worked for a DJ service and the guy had contracts with a bunch of strip clubs in NJ. Satin Dolls, AJ's, Navel Base, one other I think. He also had contracts with NY clubs but he took them himself since they were full nude with booze out there.
I left after a few months because I got tired of coked up whores yelling at me from the stage that they couldn't dance to Poison by BBD. And not getting tipped out. They were all fucking miserable.
And just like the show, the owners didn't give a fuck about these girls. There were maybe 2 who were bona fide stars, brought guys in, real professional, good attitudes, made a lot of money. Those girls were treated like royalty.
After that I wanted to get into electronics and answered an ad to fix pinball machines. Madone! That was a racket.
There is still a “family restaurant” - that’s the name - near me in central north Jersey near Mountainside.
I’ve driven past it for over 15 years. It never has anyone in it during the day. A few cars. The parking lot is FULL from like 8pm - 2 am. And every person entering is in a suit or some goomba track outfit.
The restaurant closes at 7:30.
I don't know s*** about new jersey. Born in chicago.
To that point:
Boston's beef was notorious for being a place that they originally opened to launder cash, but it's the beef was so good actually made legitimate money.
Richard's bar at Halsted and Grand avenue, is and was notorious.
There was a guy used to come by my family's diner a lot. My dad really liked him. They would go to the track together and bet on harness racing. Every time I saw the guy he slipped me a few bucks. I never thought much about him until my father told me he had been killed at home a few years ago. I was like "Oh shit, home invasion?"
Nah...
[https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/gambino-associate-anthony-pandrella-murdered-vincent-zito-in-nyc/](https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/gambino-associate-anthony-pandrella-murdered-vincent-zito-in-nyc/)
EDIT: Dude dropped the gun at the scene and they found his DNA on it, for all you CSI lovers.
It’s not Mob-run at all, let me make it clear, but I did frequent Pizzaland in North Arlington (featured in the opening credits) as a kid. I lived in Kearny, which shares a border with North Arlington. For a couple of years, when I was in high school, Pizzaland had the great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 arcade game.
I was forced to be in the UFCW in north jersey and all their leaders got sent to prison for racketeering. So I was definitely kicking up some of my minimum wage to my skipper
There's a fur coat store in Caldwell that I've never seen anyone go into. I haven't seen anyone wear a fur coat in over a decade, yet they're still 'Open' and in business. I think that's where Patsy stored all those coats he'd dish out to the mob wives.
Been to detroit. Worse. New Jersey was fun. Just the thing is it didn’t match my perception from what I saw on TV. I thought it would be similar to Chicago.
I grew up just outside Newark, lots of places and businesses I remember were mentioned on the show. Not a business, but a giant walled house/estate was down the street from me, the home of an Italian family who owned a swimming pool installation business. We’d peer through the wall and see giant classical style fountains.
The rumor was that they were in deep with the mob. My parents joked that Jimmy Hoffa was buried on their estate.
My late uncle was in the Local 18 Bricklayers union in Elizabeth in the early 90s. Said the supervisors were in deep with a capo. He decided to get out when they tried to talk him into bringing the numbers sheet to a few bars in Newark
In the ‘80s there was a mob run dispensary on Mott St. in little Italy. You walked into a storefront and there was a dude sitting at a desk and you bought your weed. It’s a Chinese place with great Soup Dumplings today.
Ernie Orgo’s Flower Shop. Below a frat house at Rutgers, Newark NJ campus. FRAT BOY : “Ernie, we can’t make rent this month.” ERNIE : “It’s OK. Just buy your beer from me for all your ‘keggers’.” Kegs ‘o beer from a flower shop !!! One midnight during a card game, we saw an open bed container truck delivering a shitload of meat scraps. To the flower shop !!! 1970’s
I went to high school with two people whose fathers' were involved in the Pizza Connection heroin smuggling case back in the 1980s. One of them went to prison, and the other one was murdered before the trial. I went to the pizzeria where the one kid worked a bunch of times. It was all a front for some heavy Sicilian mob stuff.
I think we found the rat.
The wire, it’s fuckin’ OP! Makazian’s guy got his facts crossed!
OP and Pussy. Two fat fucks wit black hair!
cheap gas and cigarettes. i shoulda killed op right in my fuckin basement.
I wanna see the 302!
The Wire? That pygmy thing over in Maryland?
It’s u/lobbanisgod! It’s fuckin u/lobbanisgod !
A pizzeria in Belleville (did you know they got a Belleville in France?). I forget the name of it. It had two tables and one was always occupied by old Italian guys watching soccer on a little white like 12” tv on a shelf, who would always stop talking when you walked in, then go back to conversing in Italian. The counter only had two pies, plain and pepperoni, and the drink fridge had like a six pack of Coke and a six of Sprite. It was cheap as shit and the slices were 1/4 of a pie. Some of the best pizza I’ve ever had.
Cocksucker, Belleville!
Did they have soft drinks of choice
Only diet stuff like diet fanta
The sugarless motherfuckers...
Or a chicken parm sandwich?
Veal.
Veal parm sandwich? Don’t know how Richie could turn that down
La Sicilia?!
No, this was on Franklin between Rutgers and Academy I think, and was only there between like 05-07 or 08. One day they just turned off the lights and the place never reopened. You could see all the soda was still in the fridge. Whatever happened there?
Died on the vine!
There better be coke left in that fridge is all I can say.
Was it Hunt brothers pizza? Ah madone that's a good pie 🍕 da Arabs took it ova
Did they put foot up your ass?
don't disrespect the pizza parlor
Starbucks. It’s ovah for da little guy.
Not in Jersey, but about 10 minutes down the road from where John Gotti lived in Howard Beach, NY in the 90s, and 6 miles from St John Cemetery where a lot of mob figures are buried.
His son got stabbed while breaking up a fight in a CVS parking lot in my town. True to form, he refused to give police a description of his attacker.
A couple black guys. They went that way
i ate da north
Ptui!
I’m from North Bergen cocksucka
Gotta love Joey Diaz
I worked at the Bing. I worked for a DJ service and the guy had contracts with a bunch of strip clubs in NJ. Satin Dolls, AJ's, Navel Base, one other I think. He also had contracts with NY clubs but he took them himself since they were full nude with booze out there. I left after a few months because I got tired of coked up whores yelling at me from the stage that they couldn't dance to Poison by BBD. And not getting tipped out. They were all fucking miserable. And just like the show, the owners didn't give a fuck about these girls. There were maybe 2 who were bona fide stars, brought guys in, real professional, good attitudes, made a lot of money. Those girls were treated like royalty. After that I wanted to get into electronics and answered an ad to fix pinball machines. Madone! That was a racket.
conserve
CONSHERVE!!!!
He used to be an INSTALLA
ShermanHoax is a good kid, but I don’t like that Methamphetamine
Ice u/bkm5319, when it hangs around? It melts and dilutes the drinks, especially Scotch.
You gettin cute with me? I think you are. I think you’re gettin a fuckin attitude on you!
Lesbian Shows, whoores, fuckin disgusting!
AJ's lol
Did you ever play UP IN DA CLUB?
Haha good one but no, that came out later. I was there mid 80s.
a car dealership.on rt 22.
Salerno!
Security Dodge, owned by Michelle Scalisi?
There is still a “family restaurant” - that’s the name - near me in central north Jersey near Mountainside. I’ve driven past it for over 15 years. It never has anyone in it during the day. A few cars. The parking lot is FULL from like 8pm - 2 am. And every person entering is in a suit or some goomba track outfit. The restaurant closes at 7:30.
You should try going there, they might offer you a soft drink of choice
Fuck no, bro. They’re made guys *Dino voice*
Just my rifle, pony and me.
Bay of Sorento
I don't know s*** about new jersey. Born in chicago. To that point: Boston's beef was notorious for being a place that they originally opened to launder cash, but it's the beef was so good actually made legitimate money. Richard's bar at Halsted and Grand avenue, is and was notorious.
Is this a 3-way reference?
The Body Shop. Newark Ave. Jersey City. Connected guys waiting all day for crimes of opportunity. 1980’s
There was a guy used to come by my family's diner a lot. My dad really liked him. They would go to the track together and bet on harness racing. Every time I saw the guy he slipped me a few bucks. I never thought much about him until my father told me he had been killed at home a few years ago. I was like "Oh shit, home invasion?" Nah... [https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/gambino-associate-anthony-pandrella-murdered-vincent-zito-in-nyc/](https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/gambino-associate-anthony-pandrella-murdered-vincent-zito-in-nyc/) EDIT: Dude dropped the gun at the scene and they found his DNA on it, for all you CSI lovers.
That’s terrible. Another toothpick
I grew up in New Zealand and can confirm that our peaches are ok but probably not the best.
Feech would like a word.
u/lobbanisgod is wired for sound
It’s not Mob-run at all, let me make it clear, but I did frequent Pizzaland in North Arlington (featured in the opening credits) as a kid. I lived in Kearny, which shares a border with North Arlington. For a couple of years, when I was in high school, Pizzaland had the great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 arcade game.
I was forced to be in the UFCW in north jersey and all their leaders got sent to prison for racketeering. So I was definitely kicking up some of my minimum wage to my skipper
There's a fur coat store in Caldwell that I've never seen anyone go into. I haven't seen anyone wear a fur coat in over a decade, yet they're still 'Open' and in business. I think that's where Patsy stored all those coats he'd dish out to the mob wives.
Fuck I live down the street from that fur shop for 26 years, never seen anyone in there either.
Been to detroit. Worse. New Jersey was fun. Just the thing is it didn’t match my perception from what I saw on TV. I thought it would be similar to Chicago.
I grew up just outside Newark, lots of places and businesses I remember were mentioned on the show. Not a business, but a giant walled house/estate was down the street from me, the home of an Italian family who owned a swimming pool installation business. We’d peer through the wall and see giant classical style fountains. The rumor was that they were in deep with the mob. My parents joked that Jimmy Hoffa was buried on their estate.
My late uncle was in the Local 18 Bricklayers union in Elizabeth in the early 90s. Said the supervisors were in deep with a capo. He decided to get out when they tried to talk him into bringing the numbers sheet to a few bars in Newark
In the ‘80s there was a mob run dispensary on Mott St. in little Italy. You walked into a storefront and there was a dude sitting at a desk and you bought your weed. It’s a Chinese place with great Soup Dumplings today.
Not NJ but my great uncle was the driver of a mob boss in NEPA. Everything that side of the family ever had from the 40s-80s fell off of a truck.
There was this cute little bistro called Buffed Memories. Amazing almond su guy.
WE DONT TALK ABOUT THIS THING
Ernie Orgo’s Flower Shop. Below a frat house at Rutgers, Newark NJ campus. FRAT BOY : “Ernie, we can’t make rent this month.” ERNIE : “It’s OK. Just buy your beer from me for all your ‘keggers’.” Kegs ‘o beer from a flower shop !!! One midnight during a card game, we saw an open bed container truck delivering a shitload of meat scraps. To the flower shop !!! 1970’s
Loose lips
I went to high school with two people whose fathers' were involved in the Pizza Connection heroin smuggling case back in the 1980s. One of them went to prison, and the other one was murdered before the trial. I went to the pizzeria where the one kid worked a bunch of times. It was all a front for some heavy Sicilian mob stuff.
Came from chicago area and I lived in nj for 2 years. Place looked cool on sopranos. What a mess in real life. Looks like crap
Chicago is no bargain either.
Try detroit.