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Russo’s New York Pizzeria in Cedar Park has closed
This sign was on the front door of Russo's on Jan. 23. (Brian Perdue/Community Impact Newspaper)
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Russo’s New York Pizzeria in Cedar Park closed Jan. 20, according to a sign on the location’s front door. The restaurant, at 1310 Cypress Creek Road, Ste. 120, in Cedar Park, specialized in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. Two nearby locations are still open in the Arboretum area, at 10721 Research Blvd. in Austin, and in Pflugerville, at 18816 Limestone Commercial Drive, Ste. 500.
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By Brian Perdue
Brian Perdue is the editor of the Cedar Park-Leander edition of Community Impact Newspaper. A native of Virginia's Appalachian Mountains, he has been a journalist since 1992, living and working in Virginia, Washington D.C., Hawaii's Big Island, Southern California and Florida before moving to Austin in 2019.
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