{"id":332804,"date":"2026-08-29T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332804\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:27:29","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-pizzeria-gives-out-free-slices-to-new-yorkers-in-need-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332804\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Pizzeria Gives Out Free Slices To New Yorkers In Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The day Daniel Romano saw a woman pull pizza out of the trash, he decided he never wanted to see it happen again.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI took her by the hand,&#8221; said Romano, the owner of D&#8217;Romano Pizzeria. &#8220;I sat her down and I gave her a slice of pizza. She got emotional, so she started crying. I said \u2018Don&#8217;t cry. Eat.&#8217; And that&#8217;s how this thing started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Romano has a handwritten sign outside his pizzeria at 3579 East Tremont Ave. in Throggs Neck that reads, \u201cTo the people eating out of the garbage, I have more love for you than you think. Please tell me you\u2019re hungry, I will give you a slice of pizza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThey have a new law in the Board of Health. Every four hours, you have to get rid of what you have,&#8221; Romano said. And you have to put new. Why not give it away to people that are hungry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Romano now gives a free slice to anybody who needs it &#8211; generosity he says he learned from his mother.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cShe had a very simple saying,&#8221; Romano said. &#8220;\u2018A desperate person will always make a better decision on a full stomach than on an empty stomach.&#8217; It stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Romano has also inspired other nearby businesses. Betty Boop Hair Salon on East Tremont Avenue is offering free haircuts Tuesday Sept. 1 from 12 p.m.  to 6 p.m.  for kids ages 5 to 12 before they head back to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day Daniel Romano saw a woman pull pizza out of the trash, he decided he never wanted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-332804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332804","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=332804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}