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A pie of traditional Margherita pizza is arranged on a table at Zero Otto Nove (089), an Italian pizzeria located at 2357 Arthur Avenue in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, on Jan. 4, 2008.

A Slice Just Isn’t A Slice At Bronx’s 089 .. It’s The Best Slice in The U.S.

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Zero Otto Nove (089) is the area code for Salerno, Italy, the seaside town from which chef- restaurateur Roberto Paciullo, 53, emigrated in 1970. It’s also the name of the best pizzeria to open in the U.S. in years, located in the Belmont section of the Bronx, where Dion and the Belmonts originated and Chazz Palminteri wrote the play `A Bronx Tale.”

The usual trajectory for Italian immigrant cooks has been to open a pizzeria first and then, after making a success of it, to open a real ristorante.

Paciullo reversed that process: Ten years ago he opened Roberto’s, one of the most popular Italian restaurants in New York, drawing a crowd that includes everyone from Joe Torre and Marisa Tomei to Mike Wallace, Uma Thurman and Jerry Springer. Getting a table at Roberto’s is far from easy, especially since they don’t always pick up the phone. Two-hour waits for a table are common.

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  The new Yankee Stadium, with a 2009 target date, is being built near the old one in the Bronx.

Building Yankee Stadium But High & Dry On Funds 

Several years ago, as the Yankees negotiated to build a new stadium in the South Bronx, the neighborhood faced the realities of a massive construction project in its midst: parks would be closed and moved, traffic would be horrendous, life would be, for a while, a hassle.

So, as one way to make up for these inconveniences, the Yankees and elected officials signed a community benefits agreement. It required that the team would give roughly $1.2 million a year, starting when the work began, to various community groups through a special panel. The deal was similar to agreements in other major projects, like Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn and Columbia University’s expansion into Harlem.

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FDNY Increases Safety By Dropping Response Time

NEW YORK (AP) _ The fire department’s average response time decreased last year for the second consecutive year even as the number calls increased slightly, the fire commissioner announced Sunday.

The citywide average response time for all incidents was 4 minutes and 49 seconds in 2007, a decrease from 4 minutes and 54 seconds in 2006, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said. In 2005, the average response time was 5 minutes and 9 seconds, he said.

The city’s firefighters responded to a total of 490,767 calls in 2007, a slight increase from 484,954 in 2006, or roughly 1.2 percent, Scoppetta said. For non-medical emergencies, firefighters responded to 209,943 calls, the most in the department’s history, Scoppetta said.

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