Pizzaiolo Nino Coniglio — an owner behind Williamsburg Pizza — is opening Pizza Crew on Wednesday, November 19, at 234 Malcolm X Boulevard, between Hancock and Jefferson, in Bed-Stuy. The new slice joint is styled to look like it has been on the block for decades, with checkerboard floors, vintage-looking signage, and next-door beers at Turtles All The Way Down. Coniglio and his partners behind Williamsburg Pizza mini-chain, Aaron McCann and John Kutinsky, now run multiple locations, including four in New York and two in Nebraska.
Pizza Crew is allegedly different from Williamsburg Pizza in that it’s supposed to be a more nostalgic slice shop. It lands in a Brooklyn pizza moment that already includes Wylie Dufresne’s Stretch Pizza expansion to Brooklyn Heights and Breads Bakery’s babka pizza kiosk at Brooklyn Bridge Park, part of the borough’s new wave of next-gen pizza operations.
A beloved cafe is opening a candy shop
Slik, a Copenhagen-inspired candy and soft-serve shop, is in the works at 437 East 12th Street (between Avenue A and First Avenue), where the owners of nearby Nordic cafe Smør already run two businesses on the block, according to EV Grieve.
An East Village sandwich shop announced it will close
Evil Katsu, the East Village sandwich shop at 435 East Ninth Street (between First Avenue and Avenue A) from co-owners Asher Sendyk, Chris Wagenlander, and Hai Oliveira, will have its final day of service onSunday, December 14, according to a note on the restaurant’s Instagram, thanking neighbors for their support and inviting regulars to stop by before they close. The restaurant opened in 2020.