An argument at Mama’s Famous Pizza on Broadway near 85th Street, apparently over a torn dollar bill, led to a stabbing on Monday night, the Daily News reported.
“Brandon Monegro argued with Giannis Manouilidis, the 53-year-old owner of Mama’s Famous Pizza on Broadway near W. 85th St. Monday night.
After Manouilidis refused to accept the ripped bill, Monegro, 19, flung a basket of the restaurant’s baked goods onto the floor as he stormed out.”
The owner’s friend, Petridis Trianhtillo, tried to intervene and Monegro allegedly stabbed him in the back, the News reported. The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital and was expected to be okay.
Apparently the 19-year-old perp is a real family man. NY Daily News reported that “Monegro fled with his girlfriend and her baby in tow.”
That is another reason I ate Sal & Carmine’s Pizza yesterday. I even walked out with the slice, although there was a guy sitting on a stool out front ‘watching things’.
I am a big fan of their pizza but they always draw a sketchy crowd – I try to get in and out of there as quickly as possible. But the owner seems like a good guy.
the building they’re in is a sort of “homeless shelter”, hence the sketchy crowd
Euclid Hall is operated by the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, Inc. From their website:
Euclid Hall provides “273 SRO (single room occupancy) units for persons with very low incomes, persons with experience of homelessness, and preexisting tenants.”
“Euclid Hall, now completely renovated, provides permanent housing to over 272 people.”
https://www.wsfssh.org/buildings/euclid-hall/
It is not a “sort of ‘homeless shelter'”. The people who live there have permanent homes — at Euclid Hall.
I hope he recovers quickly. I go to that place often because its across the street. The guys there are always friendly.
Maybe Monegro can get a job with the Trump campaign.
May want to update your first sentence. Mamma’s pizza is on 106th and Amsterdam and probably doesn’t want to be confused with this place.
I’m on 86th and Broadway all the time and don’t recognize this place. So was the photo taken uptown? Where exactly did the stabbing take place?
Maybe a wide angle shot will help:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7880109,-73.9766551,3a,75y,313.1h,80.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1skf2yLtLTge2cgxHQ7BBChQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7881012,-73.9770066,3a,90y,342.59h,98.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saQz_XNZ8NQoAAAQW9zet0w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
Building has been on that stretch of Broadway since about 1903. *LOL*
Thanks for the wide shot. I always take the crosstown and go right to the fish market. Never noticed it, lol.
Yes I will definitely pay closer attention to that area now, thank you! Really enjoyed reading the blog about the history of the neighborhood. 🙂
Knew you would recognize the place if you perhaps saw a wider angle shot.
Myself as well pass by there all the time (especially to get the cross-town bus), but rarely give the place a second thought.
Will second what another poster stated; at some times of the day there can be a few *suspect* persons loitering around the SRO’s doors. You just watch yourself and keep on keeping on.
…so it’s “new”?
Try putting your phone down the next time you’re at 86th and Broadway and look up. Maybe you’ll see it.
It’s just north of mid-block on the west side of Broadway between 85th and 86th.
And according to the article, the stabbing took place in the victim’s back. Allegedly, of course.
Put my phone down? I assume you’re talking about a cell, and I don’t have one. Do you think just because a person can post on a message board that they’re using tech devices 24/7?
Mike, lucky for him I’m the forgiving type, lol. 😉
Cat@lynn you’ll have to forgive cato..he’s one of those tough uws liberals who does his best fighting behind a keyboard.
It was reported on Broadway between 85th and 86th.
Whether Euclid Hall provides permanent housing or not, I couldn’t agree more that a sketchy crowd often congregates near Mama’s. I walk by there every day and often send my 13 year old son there to pick up pizza for the family. The guys that work there are hard working and lovely. They do not deserve this. This crime really saddens me. It feels like NY in the 70’s and 80’s. Not good.
IIRC back in the 1990’s you valued your life cheaply walking along that stretch of Broadway. The website for the place pretty much says so on their homepage.
Current owners of Euclid Hall are probably lucky to have gotten the place when they did and continue it as an SRO. Today if a developer got their hands on it thing would likely become luxury housing.
https://www.nycblogestate.com/2015/06/upper-west-side-history-euclid-hall.html
https://collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/f/d/f/b/MNY215262.jpg
Thanks for the Story. I can relate as my son went to Sal & Carmine’s back in those ’80s. After he finished eating, a couple of guys followed him out and demanded his change, which he turned over. Then they wanted the pizza bag he was bringing home for his twin sister. There he drew the line (sibling loyalty, I guess). He gave one a quick “thumping and made haste home to tell the tale, as his sister ate.