Restaurant
Franco's Pizzeria & Trattoria
Franco Forleo has run a pizza oven at 54 Tyrone Avenue in Parkview since 1986 — confirmed when December 2024 repair work turned up a coin sealed into the original wet cement 38 years earlier — making this one of the longer-running family pizza operations found across the three cities researched. His family, including a nephew and sons, still works the kitchen.
Why it is here
Franco Forleo has run a pizza oven at 54 Tyrone Avenue in Parkview since 1986 — confirmed when December 2024 repair work turned up a coin sealed into the original wet cement 38 years earlier — making this one of the longer-running family pizza operations found across the three cities researched. His family, including a nephew and sons, still works the kitchen.
What we looked at
Family-run since 1986,wood-fired oven of the same age, structurally documented via a 2024 repairThree generations of the same family in the kitchen