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- Louis Balducci, the grocer who put Italian sunshine on New York tables with the ripest tomatoes and the finest focaccio, died of leukemia Thursday at Flushing Hospital in Queens. He was 89 years old and lived in Flushing. Born in Corato, Italy, he came to New York in 1914 and opened a produce business.
www.nytimes.com/1988/08/13/obituaries/louis-balducci-grocer-dies-at-89-after-years-as-chefs-inspiration.html
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Aug 13, 1988 · Louis Balducci, the grocer who put Italian sunshine on New York tables with the ripest tomatoes and the finest focaccio, died of leukemia Thursday at Flushing Hospital in Queens.
The Balducci family patriarch, Louis, an immigrant from Corato, Italy, began his family's career in the New York City food trade by selling fruits and vegetables from a pushcart in Greenpoint, Brooklyn between 1914 and 1925.
Apr 5, 2018 · Balducci achieved his fame and fortune in Manhattan, but his family story starts here in Greenpoint in 1918 when a poor immigrant from Bari, Italy rented a pushcart in the neighborhood. Andy’s father Louis Balducci spoke little English and earned just five dollars a week working long days.
It was a big step up for Louis Balducci, an immigrant from Bari in Puglia, who had a vegetable pushcart in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, before his son Andy, returning from naval service during World...
May 2, 2024 · Luigi (Louis) Balducci was born in Corato, Italy, on March 10, 1899. He arrived in New York on the ship Providence on July 28, 1922 with his wife Maria (nee Miscioscia).
Little did Louis Balducci know that he was setting up the foundation for what would become Baldor Specialty Foods. In 1946 Louis opened a fruit stand called Balducci’s Produce in Greenwich Village at the intersection of Christopher Street and Greenwich Ave (pictured below).
Interviews with eight members of the Balducci family, seven of whom are children and grandchildren of the store's founders, Louis and Maria Balducci, provide fragments that don't always fit...
