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Why is Brooklyn’s Lenny’s Pizza shutting down? Foodies mourn closure of Saturday Night Fever joint

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Olivia Bennett

Updated on February 18, 2026

Brooklyn’s Lenny’s Pizza is shutting its ways to its clients for all time after just about seventy years of serving tasty food. Following the declaration, New Yorkers have been grieving the closure of the well known pizza staple from the 1977 melodic Saturday Night Fever.

On Saturday, February 18, melodies from the melodic show Saturday Night Fever played external the pizza outlet while inside, the proprietor, Frank Giordano, counted down his last arrangement of pies. The shop declared ahead of time that they will be shutting their business on Sunday, February 19, for good.

The 77-year-old proprietor of Lenny’s Pizza said he was prepared to hang up his cap and close the pizzeria all the while. Giordano shared:

The little pizza shop acquired fame subsequent to being highlighted in the 1977 film featuring John Travolta. From that point forward, loads of gatherings have been held in the pizza joint. Travolta himself additionally praised his birthday in the shop in February 2018.

Individuals who attempted pizza and different food sources from Lenny’s Pizza have said that the food there really depended on its name and portrayed the taste as incredible. A few Bensonhurst inhabitants have said that this pizza shop is their #1 pizza shop. Clients even adulated their sandwiches close by the pizza.

On the last day of its administration, the line before Lenny’s Pizza went out the entryway and arrived at down the block. Numerous clients who had been visiting the food joint for quite a while held back to ensure they got to say their farewells and have a last cut.

Independent of age, individuals of each and every age ran to Lenny’s Pizza to get their fill on Saturday. One client, Daniel Mondello, said:

“I love the square pizza. They taste great. Furthermore, at whatever point I return home from school, I ask my mother, ‘Mother, might we at any point go to Lenny’s?'”
Another client, Annie Reagan, said that they love the way that kids nowadays love Lenny’s Pizza to such an extent. Matthew Wolf, one more pizza darling, said that one cut from Lenny’s was rarely enough. One needed to have two cuts.

Frank Giordano’s girl, Josephine, shared that her dad chose to resign, saying it was the ideal opportunity for him to invest energy with his loved ones. She said:
In the film Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero, John Travolta’s personality, requested two cuts of pizza from Bensonhurst’s Lenny’s Pizza and stacked one cut on top of one more prior to eating them together.

Travolta got back to Lenny’s Pizza in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst in June 2018, very nearly 40 years after his melodic emerged, making the pizza staple well known. At the occasion, John Travolta had his late spouse, Kelly Preston, close by.

The couple moved to the film’s top rated soundtrack, Honey bee Well’s music. They likewise attempted cuts from Lenny’s Pizza and were supported by an expanse of admirers who assembled along 86th Road.