December of 2024,<\/a> the facade of the building collapsed, closing the street and adding months of construction to an already involved project.<\/p>\nBut Basalyga says it was always going to get done. “It’s small in size, but the scale was like bottom to top, you know, foundations and walls, windows, roofing, like everything was redone in here totally.”<\/p>\n
The hot dog shop now has a neighboring ice cream stand named after Basalyga’s daughter, Reagan, which will open soon.<\/p>\n
Apartments upstairs and plans for a new business next door will cap off what Basalyga says is continued growth in downtown Scranton. “A brand new ice cream parlor, which is a business that has never been in the city before. We reopened Coney Island. Next door, we’re going to have Ross Jewelers moving over from Washington Avenue, and then there’s 10 apartments, and there’s two, so it’s quite a big project when you put all those things together over the three parcels.”<\/p>\n
The Venturas say they are happy to switch from owners to customers.<\/p>\n
“Years ago I’d go around with a coffee cup and a cigar in my hand greeting the customers, and my brother would be yelling at me, ‘You got to make the chili sauce. You gotta make hamburgers. Don’t be talking to the customers.’ Now I could do it now and not have any worries about it,” said Bobby.<\/p>\n
But the banter between the brothers may never go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a familiar walk off Lackawanna Avenue through the front door at Coney Island Lunch in downtown Scranton,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[119162,119164,119160,119163,14472,119161,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-286125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-bobby-ventura","tag-brothers-peter","tag-coney-island-lunch","tag-hot-dog-place","tag-john-basalyga","tag-peter-ventura","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}