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Italian Bakery Palombo Near Yankee Stadium Closing Its Doors

 The Palombo by Yankee Stadium is closing its doors.
The Palombo by Yankee Stadium is closing its doors.
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DNAinfo/Eddie Small

CONCOURSE — The Palombo by Yankee Stadium is closing its doors, according to real estate broker Barry Nissen, who put together the deal for the Italian pastry and coffee shop to open at the location.

The cafe held its grand opening in June 2015 and is closing its doors less than one year later.

The exact circumstances surrounding Palombo’s closure were unclear, but the property inside the store was going up for auction on Tuesday afternoon, and a handwritten sign on the door read “We are closed.”

Paul Mingrino, property manager of the building, said the cafe was five months behind in rent payments and had already closed down its other branches.

The phone numbers for Palombo's locations on Arthur Avenue, Allerton Avenue and Bartow Avenue were not working as of Wednesday afternoon, and the bakery's location in Riverdale had closed down in late September, according to The Riverdale Press.

Sources close to the business said the declining health of the cafe's founder Paul Palombo may have played a role in the decision to shut down.

The bakery chain opened its first branch in 1897 in Esperia, a small town roughly 50 miles south of Rome, and it has been a staple in The Bronx since opening its original location in the borough on Allerton Avenue in the early 1940s.

Palombo had replaced the Burger King at 103-107 E. 161st St. It was not immediately clear what would take the bakery's place.