Pizza Makers Peddle Pies On Astoria Street Corner: Report

ASTORIA, QUEENS — A new brick oven pizzeria has set up shop in an unlikely locale: a street corner in Astoria.

The portable pizzeria — or, "pizzeria portatile," as co-owners Sal Scampitelli and Vito Liguori call it in Italian — is cooking up homemade pies starting about 11 a.m. each day at the corner of Steinway Street and 19th Avenue, according to Fox 5 New York.

The duo ordered their brick oven from Naples, Italy, and initially intended to use it for private parties, the news station reported.

The pandemic took those plans off the table.

Now, customers are lining up in Astoria for their $10 pizza pies, according to Fox 5.

"From the virus, we lost our job and we were working for a long time," Scampitelli told Fox 5. We had no choice."

Read the full story on FOX5NY's website.