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Upper West Side pizzeria closes after decades

Name: Upper West Side pizzeria closes after decades
Uploaded: 2017-07-03T21:35:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: This was not the day Dimitri "Jimmy" Vezyrakis wanted to close his pizza shop, but with rent prices nearly doubling he had no choice. Caesar's Palace Pizza had been an Upper West Side staple for 36 years. Vezyrakis emigrated from Greece when he was 14 and opened the pizza parlor when he was 21.

This was not the day Dimitri "Jimmy" Vezyrakis wanted to close his pizza shop, but with rent prices nearly doubling he had no choice. Caesar's Palace Pizza had been an Upper West Side staple for 36 years. Vezyrakis emigrated from Greece when he was 14 and opened the pizza parlor when he was 21.

Posted July 3, 2017 5:41pm EDT