Sean Feeney

I don't even know why.

It was like a mental health practice I had.

And I would just stare into this little white box of a space.

And for a good three months, I would do it every day.

And this man by the name of Poppo, who's basically the mayor of Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, yells across the street, hey, are you going to take this space or what?

Yells.

And it was 730 in the morning.

I look back and I'm like, yeah, I think so.

And he goes, what are you going to do?

And I was like, pizza.

And he goes, yeah, fuck, yeah, do pizza.

Do pizza, man.

So that drove me.

I went to Lilia that day.

I called the number on the for lease sign.

The next day I walked in and I was like, I'm taking this.

And my hope was that we could create a pizzeria that could be scaled from a neighborhood pizzeria on three things.

Delicious, consistent pizza that people craved and Italian ice.

Number two, it was a pizzeria that when people walked into, they were greeted with hello.

They were greeted with a welcome back.