Sunday, 6:20 P:M; One hour and twenty minutes after its posted opening time.
On schedule, Lower East Side subterranean pizzeria (note photo below, of how uninviting a stairs-down entry way can look in the wrong light) Cronkite has closed its doors for good. Saturday night was their last dance. As for the local color, it goes something like, "TONIGHT WILL BE CRONKITES LAST NIGHT OF OPERATIONS!!!! tHEY HAVE OFFICIALLY SHUTTERED! THIS IS 100% TRUE." Indeed it is. And sad, too.
Cronkite
Status: CLOSED
Time on the 'Watch: 17 weeks
Prognosis/Analysis: Sub-par pizza in an under designed, below grade dining room is a recipe for disaster. The name didn't pull its weight either. Kamali, she's all yours. UPDATE: As noted by our in-house Lower East Side historian, it couldn't have helped matters that they were forced to remove their in-view-of-Schiller's neon signage a few months back.
· Deathwatch: Cronkite [~E~]
· Fornino Pizza God Opening on LES Next Week [~E~]