Smith-N-9 Pizza To Replace Il Cantuccio On Smith Street

First, the storefront of the relatively new (and ugly) Bricolage-designed building at 478 Smith Street at the corner of 9th Street was home to an Uncle Louie G's. Then in early 2010, Il Cantuccio, an Italian pizza place moved in. Local residents seemed excited at first to have another food option at this corner, but the place never seemed to do much business. Recently, the doors were padlocked, but Cantuccio apparently continued to deliver pizza for take-out orders.
In November, a reviewer on Yelp was wondering what was up with the place. She wrote:
"Umm, pretty sure they're making pizza out of their home. I called to order for PICK UP, and when I went by, the place was dead dark and chained closed. I called to figure out what on earth was going on (was this place run by a bunch of Italian ghosts??) when the guy answered and shouted at me because he would DELIVER the pizza. He said the store is being "worked on" and then muttered some unintelligible nonsense about "somewhere else." I really, really wouldn't order from them. No idea how their pizza tastes, but don't trust this "being worked on" business. Also, they quoted me $12 per large pie, which I thought was an awfully good deal. Now I think it's too good."
Along with being 'worked on," the pizzeria seems to be getting a name change. New signs in the window announce that "Smith-N-9 Pizza and Pita" will be opening there soon.

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A Glimpse Back In Time At The Corner Of Smith And 9th Streets

Another glimpse back into Carroll Gardens' past with this wonderful photo of the corner of Smith Street and 9th Street in 1930...and the same corner today. The one obvious change is that the subway had not yet been built and therefore, the Culver Viaduct structure is missing.

If you look carefully at the foreground of the photo, you can see that on both the left and the right side of 9th Street, there are still brownstones, which were taken down to make way for the viaduct.

Also, at the corner, the small house with a pitched roof at # 478 Smith Street no longer stands. Just recently, a rather ugly new structure designed by Henry Radusky of Bricolage Designs has taken its place on than spot.

Now take a look at the same corner in the 1950's, exactly twenty years later. The street corner is almost identical to what it looks like right now.

I love the trolley cars. Don't you?

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Il Cuntuccio Brick Oven Pizza Coming To Corner Of Smith & 9th Streets

According to a sign in 478 Smith Street's storefront window, Il Cuntuccio Brick Oven Pizza is coming to that location. I haven't ventures to the end of Smith Street for a while, so I don't know exactly how long the sign has up. (Does anyone know?)
The storefront at the corner of 9th Street, was until recently the home of an Uncle Louie G's Ice cream store. It never attracted much business, maybe in part because the building at # 478 has to be one of the ugliest new additions to Carroll Gardens.
The 2007 'step-ladder' building was designed by Brooklyn architect Henry Radusky, of Bricolage Designs. Back then, Brownstoner called it "butt-ugly and " a "Bricolage Piece o'Crap". I couldn't agree more. Maybe the glow of Il Cuntuccio's brick oven fire will give this austere-looking building a wee bit of warmth.
Oh, and if you want to own this Carroll Gardens' unique piece of ugliness, you can currently buy the entire building for $2,099,999 here.
Or you can save and buy it for $100,000 cheaper here.

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