Crime reasons closure of department of Niagara Falls' iconic DiCamillo Bakery

“I will’t blame DiCamillo’s for final. They have persevered such a lot of of those robberies over the previous few years,” mentioned Anthony Poletti, proprietor of Marketside Eating place and president of the Pine Street Redevelopment Mission, a industry homeowners’ crew.

He mentioned one of the most causes for crime on Pine Street is the prime collection of vacant storefronts.

“That is our easiest street, to repopulate the realm,” Poletti mentioned. “Town management, they do not appear to have anything else to mention. A few years in the past we had that press convention, but it surely does not look like they modified any in their ways.”

DiCamillo mentioned it changed into tough to search out other folks to paintings on the Pine Street retailer, which reduce its time table about part a yr in the past to 4 days every week – 9 a.m. to five p.m. Thursday thru Saturday and 9 a.m. to three p.m. Sunday.

“The sentiment from our staff were felt from the ones previous robberies,” DiCamillo mentioned. “We had numerous staff now not wish to paintings there.”

He mentioned Pine Street is the one one of the most DiCamillo places to be victimized by means of crime not too long ago.

“That a part of the town basically has noticed an excessive amount of crime,” DiCamillo mentioned.

He mentioned his circle of relatives patronizes the native shops and eating places, however all of the identical, “There is instances when the realm feels much less secure than what we have in mind after we have been more youthful.”