Pizza Fridays #1: Lombardi's, where it all began

To kick off the Pizza Fridays series, I figured it would only be appropriate to go right to the beginning, where it all began.  To the first pizzeria, not only in New York City - or even the state- but the entire country: Lombardi's.

The story goes, in the late 1800s, an Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi began selling tomato pies to the work lunch crowd out of his grocery store located at 53 1/2 Spring St.  In 1905 he obtained a mercantile license from the state of New York, officially branding Lombardi's as the first licensed pizzeria in America.

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