{"id":81765,"date":"2025-07-21T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81765\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:49:11","slug":"meet-the-84-year-old-godfather-of-little-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81765\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 84-Year-Old Godfather of Little Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou gonna make me look good? Okay. Come on, take your picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen it. In Little Italy<\/a>, on the busiest restaurant street in the city, oysters and negroni bazaars all around it, a singular limoncello-yellow residence stands stubborn like the house from Up, with one distinct difference\u2014the man on the porch.<\/p>\n

From his perch, Nick Pecoraro sees much, but speaks little. Sunglasses on, pompadour combed back, sideburns long, he could be a character in a Scorsese movie. But his would likely not be a speaking part. He\u2019s not big on conversation. If you\u2019ve said hello, you may have gotten a nod, or, if you\u2019re lucky, a sideways response in an Italian accent as thick as gelato. On a street of now near-complete commerce, he sticks out as a holdover from a more residential chapter<\/a>. Beside the arched Little Italy marquee, he sits in his throne-like peacock chair on his narrow patio, watching the neighborhood go by, every day, for hours.<\/p>\n

\"LittlePhoto Credit: Matt Furman<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like watching television, so this is my television,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat am I gonna do, sit inside by myself? Look at the walls? I come out here. First, I have my cup of coffee<\/a>, my donuts<\/a>, and then when I finish, I sit here with my little dog, Pirlo!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people say I\u2019m the godfather of Little Italy, the mayor of Little Italy. I don\u2019t know; I\u2019m just a guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwenty years ago, I retired. My sons, they took over the company, Pecoraro Painting & Decorating, so\u2026 I start sitting out here. I like it, I like Little Italy, but sometimes people ask me a question; I gotta answer them.<\/p>\n

PARTNER CONTENT<\/p>\n


\n \"Guide
\n Guide to Aging Well 2025
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\n \"Summer
\n Summer Escapes Guide 2025
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\u201cI gonna be 84 in July. I been in this house 59 years. Originally, my mother in law\u2019s parents build this house in 1950. They build one floor; I did the second floor. My wife, she died over 10 years ago. I painted the house yellow. I like the yellow; everybody likes it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, vamanos, andiamo\u2014why you\u2019re still here?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou gonna make me look good? Okay. Come on, take your picture.\u201d We\u2019ve all seen it. In Little…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[1444,5229,1582,276,18473,3095,42026,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-1444","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-everything-sd","13":"tag-features","14":"tag-little-italy","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114893669289154838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}