Lucali Pizza, located in Brooklyn is one of the best Pizzerias in the nation. The owner Mark Iacono opened it because he didn’t want another chain restaurant in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn. White eating outside a deli, he was stabbed by a  thug who had a previous criminal record.

A famed Brooklyn pizza-twirler was sliced by a knife-wielding bagel-maker and left in a pool of blood thicker than his red sauce along a hip stretch of Carroll Gardens today.

Mark Iacono, owner of the famed Lucali pizzeria, had just eaten a prosciutto rice ball outside Joe’s Perette Delicatessen on Smith Street when he got a dispute with ex-con Benny Geritano.

Seemingly out of nowhere Geritano, a hood who beat two attempted murder charges in the 1990s and is currently on probation, pulled out a long kitchen knife and lunged, sources said.

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The restaurant, which can keep patrons waiting for three hours for a table, has been hailed as the best pizza in the city by Zagat’s and was named the No. 2 best in the country by GQ in 2009.

Entrepreneurs like Mark Iacono represent the best of this nation. They are the heart of the economy and are the ones who help build this nation. Criminal thugs like Geritano represent the worst of this nation. I wish Mr. Iacono a speedy recovery.