Photo: Ethan Harfenist
A popular pizza place is coming to a Columbus Avenue storefront that’s been dark since last fall — and if you’ve tried their pizza on the Upper East Side, you already know what the hype is about.
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Lucia Pizza, the Brooklyn-born slice shop that has been steadily planting its flag across Manhattan, is opening its fifth New York City location at 159 Columbus Avenue, between West 67th and West 68th Streets. The 869-square-foot shop was previously occupied by a Starbucks that closed last September — one of three UWS locations that shuttered around the same time as part of the chain’s “Back to Starbucks” restructuring plan.Lucia got its start on Avenue X in South Brooklyn in 2022, earning an early wave of attention that included a Pete Wells review in the New York Times. From there, the brand expanded to SoHo and Gramercy before landing on the Upper East Side in January 2025. The UWS location will be its fifth.
Pizza is available by the slice or pie. The menu includes a vodka pie (the Papa Leone, $30), the Salsiccia — Italian sausage, red onions, and Calabrian chilis on a whipped ricotta base ($30) — and the Poblano Funghi, with roasted poblano pepper crema, aged provolone, and mushrooms ($32). Square options include Grandma and Sicilian pies. The menu also features pasta, calzones, and garlic knots.
No opening date has been announced yet.
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