User:Hellenica/Workshop/Luigi Petrozza

Luigi "Louie" Petrozza, (b. 10 December 1953), is the owner and proprietor of Raceway Pizza, a pizzeria and Italian restaurant located in Yonkers, NY, voted "Best of Yonkers" 2006 by the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce for "Pizza By the Slice".

He was born near Cosenza, Italy in Calabria, and emigrated with his family to the United States in December of 1955. His restaurant has been open since 1971 and is well known in the area for the quality of its pizza. He was the recipient of the Best of New York 2004, "Award of Excellence Among Distinguished American of Italian Descent" from the Italian Tribune, the largest Italian-American newspaper since 1931.

In addition to his food service business, he also dabbles in television and film, with a bank commercial, a pizza-tossing extra role in the 1991 TMNT:II, and bit parts in the 1995 Across the Sea of Time and the 2003 A Tale of Two Pizzas. His establishment also served as one of the film locations for the latter picture.