Joe’s Pizza is a pizzeria in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, founded in 1975 by Joe Pozzuoli. It is one of the best-known slice shops in New York and is closely associated with old-school New York pizza. The original screen-famous storefront was at the corner of Bleecker Street and Carmine Street, before the business moved a few doors away to 7 Carmine Street.
Joe’s Pizza appears in Spider-Man 2 (2004), Seinfeld (1989–1998), Along Came Polly (2004), and Sex and the City. It is most famous on screen from Spider-Man 2, but in Seinfeld it is also used as Paisano’s Pizza.
In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Joe’s Pizza is used as Peter Parker’s workplace in the “Pizza Time” sequence. Peter works there as a delivery boy and is eventually fired after being late.
In Seinfeld (1989–1998), Joe’s Pizza is used as the exterior of Paisano’s Pizza in “The Calzone” (1996), where George buys calzones for Steinbrenner. Seinfeld location material identifies Paisano’s as the real Joe’s Pizza storefront.
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