Koronet Pizza, Columbia Favorite, Closes For Renovations: Report

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NY — Panic ensued when brown paper was spotted in the windows of Morningside Heights favorite Koronet Pizza. The window coverings are often a sign of impending doom for a local business, but there's no reason to freak out. The beloved pizza place on Broadway between West 110th and 11th streets is only taking a short break.

Koronet Pizza closed its doors earlier this week in anticipating of a weeks-long renovation project, the Columbia University student publication Bwog first reported. The pizza place, located a few blocks south of the Ivy League school, is a late-night favorite among inebriated college students.

The pizzeria is notable for its jumbo slices, which will sop up an entire night's worth of drinking in one seating. The gigantic slices are cut out of pies with a 30-inch diameter, Koronet's owner Nick Manikis told food blog Serious Eats in 2011. Each jumbo slice is about three-and-a-half times the size of a standard New York slice.

The renovation project at Koronet should wrap up by the end of the month, Bwog reported. But in the meantime, that menacing brown paper will remain in the store's windows.

Read the Bwog article here.

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