Joe's Pizza
Joe's Pizza, also called Famous Joe's Pizza, is a pizzeria located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City on Carmine Street near Bleecker Street. The restaurant is known for serving a classic New York street styled pizza and has been called a “Greenwich Village institution”. The pizzeria serves by the slice or by full pie. Locations. In addition to its original location in Greenwich Village, Joe's Pizza has other locations in Manhattan at 150 East 14th Street, 1435 Broadway, and 124 Fulton Street; in Brooklyn, at 216 Bedford Avenue; and in Ann Arbor, Michigan , at 1107 S University Ave. History. Joe's was founded in 1975 by Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli, an Italian immigrant originally from Naples, Italy. Joe's Pizza is considered a classic by the slice pizza and a favorite among tourists. The restaurant briefly closed in 2005, but has since reopened. In popular culture. Joe's Pizza appears in the 2001 video game "Grand Theft Auto III" as it is located in two different areas of the game. However, both of the pizza parlors are inaccessible to the player. The pizza parlor appears once again in "" and it remains inaccessible to the  player but you can start a side mission in-game titled "Pizza Boy." In the 2004 film, "Spider-Man 2", Peter Parker is working at Joe's Pizza as a delivery boy, but is fired due to insubordination and excessive delivery mishaps. The pizzeria has gained notability since its appearance in the movie. In 2022, Joe's Pizza made its first Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in a commercial for "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", which appeared to be another long-awaited Marvel production from director Sam Raimi.