Fireside Pizza is the latest victim of Death Ray Gillen's small business holocaust (aka The Renaissance) and it has apparently succumbed within the past few weeks. Another landmark, another shuttered business that had to carry the tax load for the downtown renaissance vision of the Schenectady Democrapic Party.

I am sure Death Ray will say it is a good thing. A bodega or "gangsta" nightclub will probably take its place, catering to some mix of legal and illegal Caribbean immigrants who have a shoot-em-up and kill-em worldview filled with bloodshed and violence.

Damn everyone is closing!!!!

Sorry to see them close.

Haven't been there in a few years, rather scary to go over there, but they had really good potato skins IOHO.  

But, their neighbor a couple doors away, who is always tax delinquent, combined wtith that neighbor leaving the taxpayers to foot the bill for demolition of his buiding, combined with tax exemptions for the cronies of plex, city, and county, obviously it was too much for Fireside, just like it's too much for the homeonwers

GB sometimes you're just too darn negative...

Don't you realize that it doesn't really matter since they aren't downtown?

Seriously though - this is a tragedy.  That place was a landmark, especially back in the day.

Great pizza, great food, great atmosphere, great service................bad area!!!
Many folks stopped going there a few years ago because the area declined so badly.
There are folks just waiting in the pc parking lot to either buy or sell you drugs or rip the jewelry off your body!!!
But hell............the lion king played at proctors.........hurray!!

Shocked to hear this terrible news. Best wings in town after Rupsis Tavern. Yeah they closed too.

     Keep the progress going-lol.

OK what's the lesson?.......BACK IN THE DAY.....however, back in the day they said the F'EN masses could 'retire' on SS.......

MOVE ON FOLKS.!................................F'EN MOVE ON!...........................................NO MATTER THE PARTY...THEY ARE THE SAME....

I hear City Squire is next on the chopping block.

Viva la Renaissance ?

If memory serves there was some State tax issues in the past 1-1 1/2 years.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Fireside Pizza is the latest victim of Death Ray Gillen's small business holocaust (aka The Renaissance) and it has apparently succumbed within the past few weeks. Another landmark, another shuttered business that had to carry the tax load for the downtown renaissance vision of the Schenectady Democrapic Party.

I am sure Death Ray will say it is a good thing. A bodega or "gangsta" nightclub will probably take its place, catering to some mix of legal and illegal Caribbean immigrants who have a shoot-em-up and kill-em worldview filled with bloodshed and violence.

Hey turdmiester- What a load of crapola-  the place closed because of  customers like  Mikecristine "Haven't been there in a FEW YEARS " -

Quoted from Mr. Majestyk

If memory serves there was some State tax issues in the past 1-1 1/2 years.

When you have a property tax load like what Schenectady small businesses are forced to carry to keep the democrap patronage workers in gravy then you have trouble paying bills.

Quoted from bumblethru

Great pizza, great food, great atmosphere, great service................bad area!!!
Many folks stopped going there a few years ago

Has anyone been there in years ?  How about Panera's  ? Please tell me why it closed again.  What - is everyone eating health food now ? too dangerous ? you people are an honest to God joke.

Quoted from Sombody

Has anyone been there in years ?  How about Panera's  ? Please tell me why it closed again.  What - is everyone eating health food now ? too dangerous ? you people are an honest to God joke.

Honestly we haven't been there in about 5 years.  Why? We avoid that area at all costs as many other folks do also. Perhaps they would have done better if they relocated to a better area, if they were able to.