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Frankie
"the Butcher" Bonsangue
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Frank was born and raised in Astoria, Queens. He
comes from a long family line of butchers. He likes
to joke and say his father was a butcher, his brother
is a butcher, his grandfather was a butcher, he’s
a butcher turned actor, His great grandfather was
a butcher, and most of all his uncles were butchers.
He even thinks his grandmother was a butcher. Franks
grandparents migrated to New York City and settled
in Greenwich Village. His grandfather, Salvatore
went to work as a butcher for his Uncle Salvatore
Allocate in a family run butcher shop located on
Perry and Washington streets that was established
in the early 1900’s along with brothers Vincent
and Frank who had migrated a few years earlier from
Sicily, in a small town named Canicatti, Provincia
D’ Agrigento. Eventually the Uncle retired
and the brothers took over the shopping the late
30’s and relocated on 10th street between
bleaker and west 4th street and called it the NORTH
POLE MEAT MKT.
Franks father Angelo who also grew up in the business
then took over the shop and relocated to Christopher
and Bleaker in the late 50’s. In the late
70’s Frank along with his brother Sal took
over the shop. Times were changing and Frank came
up with the idea about prepared foods gourmet style
and was one of the first butchers to start that
type of style butcher shop. He also claims that
he was the first to start making chicken sausage
and all types of prepared foods. Franks brother
Sal decided to open a store in bayside queens and
did so in the early 80’s. Frank then went
on in the family business with his father, then
in the late 80’s he went to work as a purchasing
agent for all meats provisions fish and poultry
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City where
he was employed till around 1994 then got married
to {A Nice Italian Girl] and on his honeymoon in
Italy his father-in-law made him an offer he couldn’t
refuse. He moved to Italy because of certain circumstances
and while in Italy his wife gave birth to a little
girl named Tina.
After about a year and a half Frank decided to come
back to America and then started to pursue an acting
career which he enjoys doing very much and because
of his butcher experience it has landed him appearances
on many cooking show’s mostly known as “Frankie
the Butcher” on the food networks Bobby Flay‘s
hot off the grill show. Frank also along the way
had a brief stint with the MTA driving a New York
City bus which because of his driving experience
was able to land him a few roles as a bus driver
most recently in the soon to be released Ben Stiller
film titled Night at the Museum. Frank really enjoys
his life today and owe’s it all to god who
he believes is directing the show. Frank says he
couldn’t have planned it better.
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