After more than a century of serving up Italian staples, G. Esposito & Sons in Carroll Gardens shut for good on Monday — and not without a community goodbye.
Brooklyn is bereft: After a century of serving up Italian staples, the third-generation owners of Carroll Gardens’ G. Esposito & Sons Jersey Pork Store bid the business goodbye on Monday.
“I think they’re shocked at how many people have come by and expressed their gratitude and given them gifts and cried,” Frank Esposito, son of co-owner John Esposito, told The Post. “You don’t see places that last that long anymore.” Despite the rise, fall, then meteoric rise of the area’s real estate market — plus more than 10 mayors, shifting swine supply chains and, recently, a large influx of French expats to the historically Italian nabe — the pork store has maintained its place. After a sign announcing the endin the shop’s 357 Court St.
“Customers bought shrink wrap machines and bought 20, 30, 40 pounds of sausage because, you know, [our sausage] is one of the things that no one can compete with,” George told The Post. The store’s longest-time customer, a 95-year-old woman named Rita who went to school with the brothers’ late father and has been shopping there “her whole life,” bought a little bit of “everything” to keep the taste alive after the awning is gone.
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