After months of  legal hearings and testimony, the owners voluntarily shut down this week as they faced even tougher legal action from the city.
Although a representative of the owners couldn’t be reached, city officials said the pizza parlor may apply for a proper license in the future, but neighbors are hoping the tiny shop becomes something a little more compatible to the neighborhood.  A Domino’s Pizza parlor is a half-block away, next door to the venerable Booeymonger.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, DCRA Director Linda Argo and D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles joined with neighborhood residents and businesses to celebrate the pizza joint victory.  Nickles kind of turned it into a political rally for the mayor’s reelection this fall, saying the Fenty administration has gone after illegal businesses ranging from auto shops to massage parlor brothels to slum landlords and, now, illegal pizza operations. 

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