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ITALIAN AMERICAN CUISINE
SINCE 1930
ORIGINAL
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SINCE 1930
ITALIAN AMERICAN CUISINE
A COURT STREET
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In 1930, brothers Danny and Sam D’Arco dreamed of opening a little Italian restaurant together on Court Street.
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Sam sadly never got to see the doors open, so Danny named the restaurant for his brother and Sam’s became a family story from the very beginning.
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Twenty years later, their nephew Mario Migliaccio arrived from Italy. He stayed for six decades, eventually running Sam’s with his wife, Rose.
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Then came Lou — Mario and Rose’s son, who came to life in the apartment upstairs and would eventually lead the next chapter of Sam’s.
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For generations, Sam’s was woven into the life of Court Street.
By then, Lou had become as much a part of the place as the pizza oven: waiter, bartender, sometime cook, resident wise guy and dynamic host.
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For decades, knowing Sam’s meant knowing Lou.
ORIGINAL
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CLOSE-UP
READY FOR IT'S
CLOSE-UP
By the 1970s, Hollywood had discovered what the neighborhood already knew: you couldn’t fake a place like Sam’s.
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As old New York interiors became harder and harder to find, Sam’s became a favorite of location scouts — the red vinyl booths and checkered tablecloths, wood-paneled walls, old bar, telephone booths and Art Deco details all stubbornly intact.
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By 2026, cameras had rolled inside Sam’s 60 times.
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Most recently — for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, Sam’s traveled all the way back to the 1930s, transformed into an Italian-American social club.
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Sam's has and always will be - lights, cameras, action...
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ENTER GEORGIA
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Georgia Fulton grew up in a faraway land called Australia.
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Drawn by the bright lights and loud saxophones of New York City, she eventually landed at the Long Island Bar, where she spent 12 years before walking into Sam’s in 2021 — and then never really stopped coming back.
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She became a regular, watching Lou hold court and seeing firsthand what Sam’s meant to the neighborhood.
Over time, Lou began to see something in Georgia, too. He saw the next chapter of Sam’s.
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After six months working side by side, Lou handed Georgia the keys.
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And in 2026, for the first time in 96 years, Sam’s had a new family.
