Shott On Location: Back At The Hotel Pennsylvania, Pt. 1; Forget Brooklyn-Style Pizza, Try Vornado-Style

Chris Shott — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:52:48 -0400

Want to suck up to your landlord? Name a menu item in his honor.

Consider the "Vornado," the greasy, chewy, rather sauceless and entirely too cheesy 11-inch, thin-crust personal pizza served up at Joe O's--the hallowed Hotel Pennsylvania's downstairs bar and restaurant, located along West 33rd Street.

The entire building, built in 1919, is presently owned by real-estate behemoth Vornado Realty Trust.

How has Vornado responded to its $13 tomato, pepperoni and mozzarella memorial?

By likening the whole historic property to a "parking lot," and reportedly planning to tear it down and construct an enormous office tower in its place.

"That's funny," remarked a bartender at Joe O's on Friday afternoon, who acted completely unaware of the landlord-entree connection.

- Chris Shott

Observer » Shott On Location: Back At The Hotel Pennsylvania, Pt. 1; Forget Brooklyn-Style Pizza, Try Vornado-Style

Shott On Location: Back At The Hotel Pennsylvania, Pt. 1; Forget Brooklyn-Style Pizza, Try Vornado-Style