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Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80 Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80
Coaching, Teaching Legend Sal Benanti Of Charlie Bloods Restaurant In Garfield Passes At 80 Somewhere this week music is playing, sauce is simmering and sports talk is spirited. There's no such joy in Garfield, though. Charlie Bloods remains dark this week as loved ones, friends and countless customers mourn the passing of the popular restaurant's owner, "Coach" Sal Benanti. “My heart hurts,” wrote Jennifer Armstrong Alfonso in an online tribute. “He was an amazing man who was willing to help anyone. He was to so many people a mentor, a father, a friend and so many other things.” Garfield was pretty much Italian and Polish when Salvatore Benanti was born in Passaic in 1941, a l…

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