I do not know if it still exists, but there was an excellent Italian bakery on Avenue X in Brooklyn near West 2 Street.

I forget the name of it at the moment.

Anyway, the Mona Lisa pastry shop does not look like an authentic Brooklyn bakery, Italian, Kosher or otherwise. The typical Brooklyn bakery was usually housed on the first floor of a two-story building (usually composed of brick) that was attached to an entire row of similar buildings for a block on a main avenue.

I used to live near Teena’s Cake Fair. Now that was an authentic Brooklyn bakery!