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Lazzara’s Pizza In New York City…Excellent & One of a Kind!

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Happy 2018 everyone! A quick aside and for the record.
The temperatures in New York City are setting records. Tonight it’s supposed to be 5 degrees. We haven’t seen a two week stretch of cold like this since I lived in Forest Hills in 1961. Wind chill factors are 10-15 degrees below zero!
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