Beloved Brooklyn pizzeria saves dying customer by finding him a kidney donor: ‘I don’t know how I got to be so lucky’
One of Brooklyn’s most famous pizza men cooked up a miracle for a customer in need.
When Mark Iacono, owner of wood-fired-pizza institution Lucali in Carroll Gardens, learned his patron and friend Theo Alano, 54, was suffering from end-stage kidney disease, he was devastated.
Desperate to help in some way, Iacono shared a post with his 245,000 Instagram followers in December of 2023, writing that Alano, a creative director, was looking for a kidney donor.
When Mark Iacono (pictured) , owner of wood-fired-pizza institution Lucali in Carroll Gardens, learned his customer Theo Alano, 54, was in dire need of a kidney donor, he shared his post with his 245,000 Instagram followers and found a match. Stephen Yang Alano, 54, told The Post his health rapidly spiraled into a near-death experience in 2022 when doctors discovered he had end-stage kidney disease. In December 2022, he had a fistula installed in his arm, a procedure that connects an artery to a vein to help pump the blood in and out of the body in preparation for dialysis in March, 2023. Stephen Yang
