Mob shakedown? Love triangle? These are some rumored causes of what led to the near-fatal 2011 stabbing of Mark Iacono, famed Brooklyn pizza chef and proprietor of Lucali. What we do know is that Iacono has the hardened New Yorker act down. Talking concerning the violent incident to Grub Street in 2012, Iacono insisted the entire thing wasn’t that severe. “I’ve no feeling in, say, about 50 % of my physique, possibly eternally. However that is okay, it is nothin’ actually.”
On April 15, 2011, Iacono’s Dunkin’ run took a bitter flip when he encountered Benny Geritano, an ex-con with mob ties — and somebody Iacono knew since childhood. A verbal spat ensued, and later within the day when Iacono visited a Brooklyn deli close to his restaurant, Geritano appeared once more. Their change escalated, Geritano brandished a kitchen knife and stabbed Iacono repeatedly within the torso, neck, and legs — hitting Iacono’s femoral artery and touchdown him in essential care.
When Geritano arrived at an area hospital with slash marks on his fingers, each males had been charged with tried homicide. Neither Geritano nor Iacono cooperated with the investigation, and the case was dropped. Iacono continues to helm Lucali, which has a second location in Miami. The trauma — if it was ever there in any respect — is behind him. “It was no massive deal. Like, I obtained right into a combat. It was only a combat” he instructed Grub Avenue. “Sure, it was a near-death expertise but it surely did not have an effect on me.”
