Brooklyn Pork store, after a century of serving up Italian staples, third generation owners of the Carroll Gardens Court Street location, G. Esposito and sons jersey pork store bid the business goodbye on Monday after 100 hundred years of service.
longtime customers and fans, like our grandchildren Frank and Chloe would take photos with the "Pig Statue" so that our family would never forget our good old days in Brooklyn. The beloved butcher did not let the iconic local shop go quietly in it's final days in business were tears soaked celebration of the ‘family’s commitment to keep the neighborhood well fed since 1922 . I think they are shocked and how many people have come by and express their gratitude by giving them gifts and cried. Frank Esposito’s son of co-owner John Esposito told the Post Reporter. You don't see places that last as long as we did anymore.
The shop, started by Frank's great grandfather shortly after he immigrated to New York from Naples Italy. Weather and events amount of change in the Brooklyn brownstone- belt neighborhood. Despite the rise and fall then Medtronic rise of the areas Brooklyn hot real estate market plus more than 10 mayors shifting swine supply chains in the early days it was all sourced from New Jersey but today it comes mostly from Carolinas, and recently a large influx of French people to the his
torical Italian neighborhood the pork store maintained its place. The secret to their success is hardly classified, outstanding food and service from familiar faces. After a sign announcing the end of the Pork store, discreetly disappeared in the shop’s location at 357 court St., Window last month patrons inundated John and his younger brother George Esposito with gifts, along with letters[FC1] [FC2] of thanks with enormous orders so they could continue to enjoy Esposito’s quality dishes even after the store was no more. Most of our families took photos in front of the store featuring their pig statue mascot since the 1980’s. It's an end of an era that was dominated by the newly arrived Italian population in the neighborhood So many years ago.
The reason for the closure is not a classic tale, of being displaced by rising rent but one of H. George is in his 60s his brother John is in his upper 60s and having not pressured his children into the inheriting their legacy they didn't find anyone worthy of carrying on the family legacy. It's happenstance and luck that the members of the FDNY engine company 202 ladder 101 battalion 32 in Red Hook Brooklyn, removed the pig statue in front of the pork store as a memory of great lunch sandwiches they had there every day. The statue will now have a permanent home at their fire station located on Richard St. In Red Hook Brooklyn.
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