On Third Street in Brooklyn, A. L. Coluccio is now open. The store is owned by husband and wife team Louis and Alison Coluccio. They sell, pastries, italian speciality products, meats, and, most importantly, cheeses.

His grandfather Domenico Coluccio started an Italian food importing and distribution business, D. Coluccio & Sons, in Bensonhurst some 50 years ago. Last year, Louis (shown above), 30, and his wife, Alison, saw a storefront in Bay Ridge that had been a butcher and decided to open a shop there. “There’s a tradition of family owned and operated places, stores, restaurants in this neighborhood."

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Photo by Chester Higgins Jr. for The New York Times