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Press of Port Washington
Pietro’s to open in Roslyn to serve LI Family-owned Italian restaurant to take over The Jolly Fisherman’s location BY C A M E RY N O A K ES Pietro’s, a third-generation, familyowned and operated Italian restaurant located in Manhattan’s Midtown East, is coming to Roslyn. The Manhattan restaurant will be expanding to a second location, taking over the building of longtime Roslyn restaurant The Jolly Fisherman, which announced it will be closing its doors after 66 years in business. Bill Bruckman is the third generation to run Pietro’s. He and his brother took over Pietro’s from their father, who had married into the family, and operated the restaurant since 1993. The restaurant was started by a cousin of Bruckman’s grandfather in 1932, focusing on serving Northern Italian cuisine and steaks in the city. Pietro’s was established on 45th Street and Third Avenue as a “small, little place,” Bruckman said, but relocated in 1984 to its current spot at 232 E 43rd St. After being in the neighborhood for decades and serving three generations of customers, Bruckman said Pietro’s is typically feeding a dining room of 70%80% regulars every night with many coming in multiple nights a week. “They’ve been coming into our establishment for generations,” Bruckman said. “I’m speaking for the third
generations like myself coming in, but their kids are starting to come in now. So we’re getting into the fourth generation now of customers.” He said the secret to having a longterm, devoted customer base is first the food. “Our food speaks for itself,” Bruckman said. The second secret is their staff, with every customer greeted at the front door by a member of his family, if not him. He said the restaurant has very little staff turnover, enabling customers to foster bonds with the restaurant staff over generations. Of their customer base, Bruckman said there is a significant portion who travel into the city from Long Island. He said this has grown since the beginning of the pandemic as they saw many of their customers move out of the city and into the surrounding Long Island suburbs. While Bruckman and his family have been considering opening up another location for nearly 10 years, this phenomenon was the final deciding factor. For the past couple of years, Bruckman and his family have been looking for somewhere to establish their second location. The first opportunity arose in Glen Cove. Continued on Page 67
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Fireworks at the Town of North Hempstead’s Memorial Day celebration at North Hempstead Beach Park on Saturday. See story on page 2.
State aid increases but disparities remain BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
large increase in state aid, according to an analysis by Blank Slate Media. The range of spending per pupil Spending per student in North Shore school districts will contin- in the 11 public school districts in ue to show a wide disparity in the the North Shore ranges from more 2023-2024 school year despite a than $47,000 to less than $24,000,
according to the analysis. The districts will receive more than $204 million in state aid for the 2023-24 school year thanks to a 7.1% increase in assistance to New Continued on Page 66
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