THE EXPANSION of an Italian pastry shop from Staten Island to Cranford was never intended, but when Christina Campitiello visited the location, she just couldn't resist. It was like a scene from a movie. "The town was so perfect," she says. "We were there for one minute — it felt like home."

Campitiello knows from movie scenes. The original Alfonso's in Staten Island was featured in 1983's "Easy Money." It's a hilarious scene, with Rodney Dangerfield and Joe Pesci navigating, treacherously, a towering wedding cake festooned in pink flowers out of the bakery — Alfonso's Bakery and Scungilli — and loading it into the back of a red Dodge van, which belongs to Nicky's Plumbing. (It's secure there, they assure each other, since it's wedged against a toilet.)

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