Community mourns loss of L&B co-owner Louis Barbati
BY ANNA SPIVAK & MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
After the co-owner of neighborhood staple L&B Spumoni Gardens, Louis Barbati, was gunned down outside of his Dyker Heights home on Thursday night, the Southern Brooklyn community is mourning his loss as police scramble to find the man behind the first shooting to hit the neighborhood in over a year.
Eerily quiet for a Friday morning, the neighborhood pizzeria — which starts serving up its classic ices and slices to a hungry crowd at around 11 a.m. – was almost desolate save for a few photographers and reporters there for a press conference, organized by Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Vincent Gentile, that was cancelled at the request of Barbati’s family members.