By Hannah Reale
Both Upper West Side branches of Famiglia’s Famous Pizza have been temporarily closed, for completely unrelated reasons.
The original Famiglia’s branch on 96th Street and Amsterdam Avenue has shuttered its doors for now due to construction in the building’s lobby. The Department of Buildings determined that the premises’ conditions were “immediately perilous to life,” posting on the front door: “This premises has been vacated and reentry is prohibited until such conditions have been eliminated to the satisfaction of the department.”
A more dramatic cause has led to the temporary closing of the Famiglia’s on 111th Street and Broadway: a fire on May 23rd. The branch plans to reopen but has yet to fully repair its interior.
A call to Famiglia’s headquarters yielded no further information about when either branch will be open again.
“immediately perilous to life”. Yeah, I don’t feel like being crushed to death over a slice of pizza. Thank you Department of Buildings!
Thanks for the credit line, wish you had used more of my pictures, especially the long line of firemen helping out !
Why would you eat Famiglia at either location when you have Sal and Carmine’s in the the neighborhood?
Famiglia is the kind of pizza that when you turn a slice over, nothing falls or drips off. But if you’re into that, you can get Famiglia at a rest stop on the NY Thruway. No thanks.
THANK YOU. people need to know how bad their pizza is to a native New Yorker from Brooklyn.
They have pedestrian gummy soggy disgusting pizza at Famiglia!
Yeah, Eat at sal and carmines. Try the newer pizzeria Little Italy on the corner of 92nd and Broadway. Is delicious!
Blech. Give me Mama’s Too! any day.
awful pizza
WHERE can you get a GREAT slice between 86th and 96th Street ???
I would love for another Mamas Too to move into their 111th street space. Never di like Famiglia pizza. Come to Mamas!!
I’m hope Mama’s Too has stopped its price increases. Went from 3.50 to 4.00 to 4.50 … and the service is wretched. I’ll bet anything the price goes up to 5.00 before the end of summer …
I’m glad Mama’s Too! are raising their prices. They use the best ingredients I’ve ever seen in a pizza joint, and I do not want them to close if they cannot pay their expenses.
for a slice???
I beg to differ from all of you Famous
Famiglia naysayers. Their pizza and red-sauce dishes — though priced a bit high — were damn good. And before their closing, which has been over a month now, the store at 96 & Amsterdam made the kind prompt deliveries that you could set your watch to. Having said all of that, if they don’t re-open within three weeks I’ll find another favorite (and my exclusive) area pizzeria. Can you hear me now Famous?
It’s not their fault that they’re closed.