1![Vincent Piazza [back row center], Lucky Luciano on "Boardwalk Empire," celebrated Basil's grand opening.](http://queenscourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC_1086w.jpg "Vincent Piazza [back row center], Lucky Luciano on \"Boardwalk Empire,\" celebrated Basil's grand opening.")
Vincent Piazza, who portrays Lucky Luciano on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” joined family and friends to cut the ribbon at Basil’s grand opening in Astoria last night.
The actor, raised in Maspeth, sat down with The Courier to discuss his Queens upbringing and the upcoming season of Boardwalk Empire at the opening of his relative’s new pizzeria.
“It manages to one up last season,” said Piazza, who graduated from Archbishop Molloy. “It’s the ‘Year of the Gangster.’”
Bertie Foster-Ward – I can only agree with my wife, and thank you too, and all the kind comments. I can’t look at the phoots of the speeches without wanting to laugh and cry much like on the day itself. The more I look at the phoots the more I love them.