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Dyker Heights staple Vaccaro
Pizza Royale closes shop
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
MMCGOLDRICK@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
Addio.
After more than three
successful decades in Dyker
Heights, Vaccaro Pizza Royale has
closed up shop.
The longstanding pizzeria which
also operated a trattoria for part of
its history had been a neighborhood
staple, at home at 6718 Fort Hamilton
Parkway since the early '80s.
Until late last year, Vaccaro's
doubled as your average, though
well-loved pizza place as well as a
small-scale but elegant
sit-down eatery, the
former founded by
restaurateur Dom
Vaccaro (who is retiring)
in 1983, the latter
an off shoot opened
around 2000. Now
the fl agship pizzeria
has joined its restaurant
on the other side.
The business
once neighbored
the long-shuttered
Fortway Movie Theater,
now an Asian
supermarket.
Longtime patrons
remembered both
fondly while mourning
yet another loss for the community.
“The movie theater and Vaccaro’s
were inextricably intertwined in
those years, playing off of one another
and helping sustain each other's
business,” recalled Bay Ridge resident
and co-founder of the popular “South
Brooklyn Food and Drink Facebook”
page Bianca Papas.
Papas looked back on growing up in
local establishments such as Vaccaro’s.
“We came of age in that neighborhood
when the Fortway was still the
social hub of the packs of teenagers
that still roamed around Brooklyn
streets,” she told this paper, adding
that, while it may be hard to imagine
this day and age, back in the day,
pizzerias like Vaccaro’s were the
place to be for local teens. “We didn't
really hang out at each other's houses.
We just kind of cut classes and
walked around together, periodically
sneaking into a matinee showing via
an unattended back entrance at the
Fortway, wasting time until we could
get some pizza next door.”
Vaccaro, she said, “was a tough
Italian guy who wouldn't allow us in
there during the week before 3 p.m.
so that was really our clubhouse aft er
‘school.’”
Frank Tilelli, fellow co-founder
of the hyperlocal foodie Facebook
page, spoke of Vaccaro’s footprint
in both the ‘hood and within his
own family.
“It started a long love aff air with me
of having a slice before going to the
movies,” he said. “I remember going
there with my dad as a kid. My father
loved the movies and pizza and he
passed it on to me.”
Owners, who have taken the time
to thank the community with a poster
size scrawl on Vaccaro's front door,
are just as sad to see their beloved
eatery go.
"We would like to take the opportunity
to thank all our customers
and friends and everyone that we
had the pleasure to serve over our 35
years at this location," the Vaccaro
family said. "Many of you have become
more than customers and our
gratitude is really immeasurable
for your love and support over the
years."
Its food, locals agree, will be
missed.
“It’s traditional Italian cuisine but we
do our own spin on it,” family member
Michael Vaccaro told this paper in
2013 when we sampled its fares for a
dining review. "We want our customers
wanting more."
Now, with its gates down and the
"thank you" on the window, they certainly
do.
“It’s very sad,” said Papas. “It was a
big part of our youth. It seemed like it
would be there forever.”
BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/Photos by Helen Klein
Vaccaro Pizza Royale on Fort Hamilton
Parkway has shut down.
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