{"id":313613,"date":"2026-08-04T18:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:08:50","slug":"ev-grieve-salumeria-rosi-eyes-labor-day-reopening-following-building-related-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313613\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Salumeria Rosi eyes Labor Day reopening following building-related damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilL64wspaUtGT4qOy2qb1KYCpeEDAtQRawe1tP_VNK8McfjKsLHJyL5_Lfwixl7G7-CiyIfodVupM8BlHziWFy4QtvBiZvHKuarDyalMSIsHkpDCTC4tjRLN4uAc-4kb9t-8gW0OkLmVnIQ0DzHRvELhYNUkIF8Ro833Tvh4Q4iZzCqGFZPAu7V8mc-Xg\/s1704\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_192.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_192.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy<\/p>\n<p>Salumeria Rosi, the Italian restaurant and salumi shop at 222 Avenue B between 13th and 14th Streets, is eyeing a Labor Day return after a recent temporary closure.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhrDFs2bIaZQFojS0TOfnIu3lmgPozfg8p_UhBgW0FP80OJFXQwZt8rT8_ZP-vU9brhBbjg5I6CnJZeZYuqOgFRdZhUe8_2xCt11zwQEF_xlstFcQ2U-ATxaBwedYh8Rb8GjpJJ8C1tZbYWHl9pOQkjphrhaHmmIj2Xmb5-VUUusiwqy-hgfz4H6E3Dtls\/s1704\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_206.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_206.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owner Andrew Loscalzo told EVG last night the closure stems from damage to the building, including issues related to a storm drain and structural repairs.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgcSStxwDLc9PEP6yvtkWr04__p3NAgX4QEzJ9fvMYKOUu_ZmGhw_NurausqKKDB1aA2nedF9cucWfvCdARhGYagmz_psomwIelz9nwMOk2zQdHG6U22XFuSZhtxo21lBhMMlRns1DUilVyqt4SbmN-HVJLWbYxvTYtQeqpSTiK4yGd-dSlzIIyQ_03xu8\/s2272\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_210.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/viruswalk_8-2-26_r_w_210.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had some damage from the building and we&#8217;re fixing it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In fact, we&#8217;re doing some nice updates to the space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loscalzo said the restaurant is targeting a reopening around Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going anywhere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everything&#8217;s great with the business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Salumeria Rosi is working with the building&#8217;s ownership and its insurance carrier to complete the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want to be open,&#8221; Loscalzo said. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t want to close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed gratitude for the neighborhood&#8217;s response since the restaurant opened\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2026\/02\/openings-salumeria-rosi-on-avenue-b.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here in January<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had such a good reception,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re really just so happy with how the project has been going so far with everybody in the neighborhood coming in for their coffee or lunch or dinner. I want people to remember us, and I want people to be excited for when we reopen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second Salumeria Rosi outpost, joining the one that opened on the UWS in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Salumeria Rosi, the Italian restaurant and salumi shop at 222 Avenue B&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-313613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}