No, TB, I didn't make it out to the Island much then. The eastern extent of my pizza travels was down on Cross Bay Blvd... there was a place called Pizza City (this was back in the '50s) that my dad used to take me on the way back from Rockaway Point. It was all swamplands then and this was more of a drive-in type place (favored by bikers). Many years later, when I was driving the cab, I had a fare out to the area and saw the pizza place still standing. I can't begin to tell you how many memories came flooding back. I, of course, stopped off for a few slices.

By that time the area was built up and Gotti's hangout was a few blocks away.